NBB 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Startle Response, Executive Functions, White Matter
12 Mar 2018
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Emotional regulation: processes that influence the type of emotions we have, when we have them, and how we express and experience them. Regulatory ability --- neural activity in prefrontal and emotional appraisal systems. Diff in resting activity of l and r f lobes. More l activation at rest --> voluntarily suppress (-) emotion. Eyeblink startle reflex: index duration of the emotional response following emotional provocation. More l ant eeg --- attenuated startle magnitude post (-) stimuli. Automatic emotion regulation -- regulation that occurs in the absence of specific intentions to suppress negative emotion. Gross -- ""shutting down" an emotion at diff points in process of emotion generation would have diff consequences and thus could explain the divergent conclusions. Cognitive linguistic strategy that reinterprets an emotion-laden stimulus in non- emotional terms. Decreasing (-) emotion increases pfc activity, decreased amyg activity. Where we inhibit an emotion-suppressive behavior during an emotionally arousing situation.
