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Split-brain surgery, Roger
Sperry |
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LeDoux's thesis advise, Mike
Gazzaniga |
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Word "perception" describes
in a general way what goes on when we see, hear, smell, . . . |
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Neural organization of emotional behavioral systems of vertebrates is similar across species. |
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Emotional responses, for the most part, are generated
unconsciously. |
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There is not one mechanism of consciousness, and it can be
occupied by mundane facts or highly charged emotions. |
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Emotions
easily bump mundane events out of awareness. |
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While conscious
control over emotions is weak, emotions can flood consciousness. |
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Connections
from the emotional systems to the cognitive systems are stronger than connections from the cognitive
systems to the emotional
system. |
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Once emotions occur, they become powerful
motivators of future behaviors. |
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Fear becomes anxiety, desire
gives way to greed, annoyance turns to anger, anger to hatred, friendship to
envy, love to obsession, or pleasure to addiction. |
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Cognitive science treats minds as though they are computers. |
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There is no
single emotion system. Instead, there are lots of emotion systems. |
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Emotion systems operate outside of consciousness, and they constitute the emotional
unconscious. |
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Human brain
contains about 10 billion neurons. |
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Cognitive science is about thinking, reasoning and intellect. |
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Behaviorist psychology, objectively measurable behaviors, "ghosts in the
machine." |
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Brain can unconsciously solve geometric
problems.
[Gestalts] |
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We do not consciously plan the grammatical structure of the sentences we utter. |
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Split-brain patients, only the left hemisphere could talk. |
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Much of mental life occurs outside of conscious awareness. |
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Distinguish thinking and
feeling; cognition and emotion. |
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Gut feelings
in making decisions. |
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Subliminal perception |
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Much emotional
processing occurs unconsciously. |
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Emotional
and cognitive processing
both largely occur unconsciously. |
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Emotion and
cognition are best
thought of as separate
but interacting mental functions. |
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Cognition gives choices;
appraisal mechanisms narrow the response options. |
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Language comprehension, Wernicke area. |
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Speech syntax, Broca area. |
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Conscious
experiences of emotions -- the feelings. |
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Sensory thalamus and sensory
cortex - (diagram), Sensory messages transmitted
to specific areas of the thalamus, process signals and relay results to
specialized areas of neocortex. |
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Hippocampus
was included in the Papez circuit because it was known to be a major site of brain damage in rabies, with intense emotional,
convulsive, paralytic symptoms. |
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Papez Circuit
-- (diagram) |
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Papez
suggested that emotional experiences could be generated in two ways: (1) stream of feeling by sensory objects, (2) stream of thought to cerebral cortex, then to cingulate cortex. |
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Distinction between subcortical and cortical activation of emotion. |
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Papez circuit
theory, takeoff point for limbic system theory. |
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Importance of the hypothalamus in emotional expression; importance of the cerebral cortex in emotional experience. |
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Neocortex
lacks significant connections with the hypothalamus; evolutionarily older areas of the medial
cortex (rhinencephalon) are intimately connected with the hypothalamus. |
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MacLean's Limbic
System theory -- (diagram) |
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feeding, defense, fighting,
reproduction |
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In 1952, MacLean introduced the term 'limbic
system'. |
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Forebrain,
according to MacLean (1970), had gone through three stages of evolution: (1) reptilian,
(2) paleomammalian, (3) neomammalian. |
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Paleomammalian brain, present in all mammals, is essentially the limbic system. |
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Lowly animals
only have the medial (old) cortex, but mammals have both the medial and lateral
(new) cortex. |
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Hypothalamus
is connected to all levels of the nervous system,
including the neocortex. |
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The term Limbic System should be
discarded. |
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Evolution of the brain as a key
to understanding emotions. |
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Emotions
are indeed functions involved in survival. |
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Brain is
the product of evolutionary tinkering, where lots of little changes over extremely long periods of
time have accumulated. |
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Linguist Steven
Pinker. |
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Evolution
tends to act on the individual modules and their
functions rather than the brain as a whole. |
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Breathing
is controlled in the medulla oblongata, that utility station down in the subbasement of the brain. |
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Attempts to find a single
unified brain system of emotion have not been very successful. |
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Different emotions are mediated by different brain
networks, different modules. |
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Human species
seems to be endowed with natural language. |
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Some emotional systems in the brain are essentially the same
in many vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles,
birds and possibly amphibians and fishes. |
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Evolution stubbornly maintains
emotional functions across species. |
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Herbert Spencer, a contemporary of Darwin's, who transformed "descent with modification"
into "evolution." |
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Bodily expressions (especially of the face)
occurring during emotions are similar in people around the world. |
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Goose bumps,
a mild form of piloerection in humans, occur as a vestige of the more dramatic displays
in our mammalian cousins. |
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Innate emotions, some have older evolutionary histories than others. |
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Innate emotions, universal facial expressions that are similar across many
different cultures. |
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Eight basic emotions -- surprise, interest, joy, rage,
fear, disgust, shame, anguish - controlled by 'hardwired' brain systems. |
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Mixing of basic emotions into higher order emotions is typically thought of as a cognitive operation. |
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Derived or nonbasic
emotions tend to be more
uniquely human. |
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Pride, shame, gratitude might be uniquely human emotions. |
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Basic emotions: -- joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness,, disgust,
anger, anticipation - (illustration) |
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Primary dyads: - joy +
acceptance = friendliness; fear + surprise = alarm |
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Secondary dyads: - joy + fear =
guilt; sadness + anger = sullenness |
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Tertiary dyads: - joy + surprise
= delight; anticipation + fear = anxiety |
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Shivering
can occur because your are cold or because you are afraid. |
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Crying can
occur in extreme happiness as well as sadness. |
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Frowning
occurs in anger, but
also in frustration. |
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Eyebrows are raised in anger,
but also in any condition that requires that we carefully
attend to the environment. |
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All vertebrates have a hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain; all the basic structures and major neural pathways in all
animals. |
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Brain evolution from fish, through amphibians and reptiles to mammals, and
ultimately to humans, greatest change in the
forebrain. |
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All vertebrates have areas of the cortex that correspond to the neocortex in mammals. |
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Brain evolution is basically conservative; areas that are useful for
survival have been
around for a long time, preserved in their basic
structure and function. |
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Basic building blocks of emotions are neural systems that mediate behavioral interactions with the environment, particularly behaviors that take care of fundamental problems of survival. |
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Feelings
can only occur when a survival system is present in a brain that also has the capacity for consciousness. |
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Capacity to have feelings is directly tied to the
capacity to be consciously aware of one's self and the relations of
oneself to the rest of the world. |
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Although a neuron usually has only one axon, it branches extensively, allowing many other neurons to be influenced. |
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Fear Conditioning - (diagram) |
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Fear conditioning is quick and very long lasting; there is little forgetting with conditioned fear. |
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Fear conditioning is an evolutionarily old solution to the problem of acquiring and
storing information. |
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Auditory Processing Pathways -
(diagram) |
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Auditory cortex is composed of a number of regions and subregions. |
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Neurotransmitters are manufactured in cell bodies and transported down the axon to the terminal region where they are used to communicate
across synapses. |
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Pathway
that can transmit information directly to the
amygdala from the thalamus; elicit fear responses without the
aid of the cortex. |
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Direct thalamic input to the amygdala allow the cortex to be bypassed. |
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Subregion of the amygdala -- central nucleus has connections
with brain stem areas
controlling heart rate
and autonomic nervous system responses. |
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Different Outputs
of the Amygdala Control Different Conditioned Fear Responses -
(diagram) |
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Amygdala is
composed of about a dozen or so subregions. |
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Information processing pathways in the Amygdala - (diagram) |
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Lateral Nucleus (LA) is the gateway into the amygdala. |
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Central Nucleus (CE) is the main connection with areas that control emotional responses. |
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It is possible that the direct thalamic pathway to the amygdala in mammals is simply an evolutionary relic, the brain's
version of an appendix; however it has existed for millions of years and
likely serves some useful function |
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Low road
and High road to the Amygdala - (diagram) |
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Amygdala receives inputs from a wide range of levels of cognitive
processing - (diagram) |
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Amygdala function established eons ago, at least since dinosaurs ruled the earth, maintained through diverse branches of
evolutionally development. |
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Prefrontal cortex has expanded the most in primates and may not even exist in other mammals. |
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Long term memory - memory that lasts for more than
a few seconds. |
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Declarative
or Explicit memory --
conscious recall of some past experienced; memories brought to mind and
described verbally. |
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Nondeclarative or Implicit memory -- learning that does not depend on conscious awareness. |
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Implicit, fear-conditioned
memory, 'emotional memory' |
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Explicit declarative memory,
'memory of an emotion' |
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Memory is
not mediated by any particular neural system but instead is diffusely distributed in the brain. |
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H. M., extreme epilepsy, 1953, Hartford, CT; - Explicit (conscious) memory, age 27,
convulsive epileptic attacks since age 16. |
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Short-term memory lasts seconds. |
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Long-term memory lasts minutes to a lifetime. |
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What you are conscious
of now, working
memory, special kind of short-term memory. |
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What goes into your short-term memory is what can go into your long-term memory. |
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H. M. unable
to form long-term
memories. He could hold
on to information for a
few seconds,
short-term memory. |
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Formation
of long-term memories
involves the temporal lobe; short-term memories involve other brain systems. |
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Brain system
involved in forming
new long-term memories is different from the one that stores old long-term memories. |
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H. M. had very severe anterograde amnesia but only a mild retrograde amnesia. |
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H. M.'s major deficit: depositing new learning into the long-term memory bank. |
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Temporal lobe
is needed for forming long-term memories, but gradually over the years, memories become
independent of this system. |
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Areas of the temporal lobe that
were damaged in H. M.
included major portions of the hippocampus and amygdala. |
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Hippocampus
emerged as the brain region for laying down new memories. |
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Alzheimer's disease begins in the temporal lobe, particularly the hippocampus; forgetfulness is the first warning sign; eventually creeps
into the neocortex;
all aspects of memory along with a variety of other cortical
cognitive functions. |
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Much of what a brain does during
an emotion occurs outside of conscious awareness. |
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Subjective emotional experience, like the feeling of being afraid, results when we become consciously aware that an emotion system of the brain, like
the defense system, is active. |
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Success of the cognitive
movement as an alternative to behaviorism was largely due to the fact that it
could deal with the mind in terms of processes that occur unconsciously. |
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Working memory -- thinking occurs in a mental workspace that has a limited capacity. |
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Working memory -- temporary
storage mechanism that allows several pieces of information to be held in mind at the same
time and compared, contrasted, and otherwise
interrelated. |
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Working memory (used to be called short-term memory) implies not just
a short term storage but an active processing
mechanism used in thinking
and reasoning. |
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Working memory has a capacity limit of about seven pieces of
information. |
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Executive functions take care of overall coordination of the activities of working
memory. |
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Consciousness
is the awareness of
what is in working memory. |
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To be aware of something, that something must
be in working memory. |
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Prefrontal areas may not store anything but instead just control the activity of other regions,
allowing activity in some areas to rise above the threshold for consciousness and inhibiting the activity of others. |
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Contents of
working memory are what we are conscious of at the moment. |
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Working memory is likely to be an essential
aspect of consciousness, but the subjective nature of consciousness
is not completely explained by the computational processes of working memory. |
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Feelings
come about when the activity of specialized emotion systems gets represented in the system that gives rise to consciousness; working memory. |
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Amygdala
has projections to many cortical areas. |
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Projections
of the amygdala to the
cortex are considerably greater than the
projections from the cortex to the amygdala. |
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Orbital cortex may be especially involved in
working memories about rewards and punishments. |
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By connections with short-term buffers and long-term memory networks, together with the networks of the frontal lobe, the amygdala can influence the information content of working
memory. |
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Redundancy
in the system; conscious awareness of amygdala activity can come about in several ways. |
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Difference between being awake
and alert, on the one hand, and drowsy or asleep on the other; arousal level of the cortex. |
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The amygdala receives inputs from the latest stages of cortical processing
within the sensory systems, but projects back to
all stages of cortical processing, even the earliest. |
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Dream sleep,
cortex is in a state of arousal, very similar to the alert waking state; no access to external stimuli and
only processes internal events. |
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Amygdala's influence on sensory areas of cortex is greater than the influence of the same areas on
the amygdala - (diagram) |
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Some Cortical Outputs of the
Amygdala and their Function - (diagram) |
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EEG is slow and
rhythmic when the cortex
is not aroused; fast and out of sync during arousal. |
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When arousal occurs, cells in the cortex, and in the thalamic regions become more sensitive. |
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Aroused cells
go from a state in which they fire at a very slow rate and more or less in synchrony to a state in which they are generally out of sync, but with some cells being driven especially strongly by incoming stimuli. |
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A number of different systems contribute to arousal; four are located in the brainstem. Neurotransmitters: (1) acetylcholine (Ach), (2) noradrenaline, (3) dopamine, (4) serotonin. |
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Axons of
each of these cell groups terminate in widespread areas of the
forebrain. |
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Arousal is
important to all mental functions; contributes significantly to attention, perception, memory,
emotion, and problem solving. |
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Too much arousal is not good. Overaroused; tense and anxious and unproductive; need just the right level of activation to perform optimally. |
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Emotional reactions are typically accompanied by intense cortical arousal. |
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Once the
fear system is turned on, it's hard to turn it off; this is the
nature of anxiety. |
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Arousal
occurs in any novel stimulus and not just to emotional stimuli. A novel
but insignificant stimulus elicits a temporary state of
arousal that dissipates almost immediately. Arousal is prolonged in the
presence of emotional stimuli. |
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Arousal
elicited by a novel stimulus does not require the amygdala. |
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Arousal systems simply say that something
important is going on. |
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Cognitive inference and decision
making processes
controlled by the working memory executive become actively focused on the emotionally arousing
situation. |
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Emotional experience; autonomic nervous system (ANS); adrenaline, steroid and peptide hormones released by body organs during emotional arousal travel in the blood to the brain. |
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Visceral responses have relatively slow actions, a second or two. |
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Some
hormones (adrenal
steroids) require the synthesis of new proteins, take hours. |
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Gut feelings'
-- entire pattern of somatic and visceral feedback from the body. |
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Vagus nerve,
transmits much information from the visceral
organs to the brain. |
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Nerves
controlling facial movements go directly between brain and face without going through spinal cord. |
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Perils of introspection as scientific data; nothing wrong with
using it as a starting point for more penetrating analysis. |
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Putting on a happy
face may not be such a
bad idea when you're feeling blue. |
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Can't have a conscious
emotional feeling of
being afraid without
aspects of the emotional experience being represented in working
memory. |
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Working memory
is the gateway to subjective
experiences, emotional and nonemotional ones, and is indispensable in the creation of a conscious emotional feeling. |
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Some Neural Ingredients of a
Conscious Emotional Experience - (diagram) |
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Can't have a complete feeling of fear without the activation of the amygdala. |
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Can't have a sustained feeling of fear without the activation of arousal
systems. |
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Can't have a
sustained emotional experience without feedback from the body. |
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Can have emotional
feeling without being conscious of the eliciting stimulus. |
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We can daydream while doing other things; go back and forth between daydream and
the other activities. |
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Philosophers have something
called "the problem of other minds". |
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Only higher
primates, in whom the prefrontal
cortex is especially
well developed, are self-aware, recognize themselves in
a mirror. |
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Natural language only exists in the human brain. |
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Human consciousness is the way it is because of the way our brain is. |
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Other animals
may also be conscious
in their own special way due to the way their
brains are. |
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Still other animals are probably not conscious at all, again due to the kinds of
brains they have. |
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Consciousness
is not the prerequisite
to nor the same thing as the capacity to think and
reason. An animal can solve
lots of problems without being overtly conscious of what it is doing and why it is doing it. |
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Consciousness
elevates thinking to a new level, but it is not the same thing as thinking. |
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Emotional feelings result when we become consciously aware that an emotion system of the brain is active. |
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Feelings
will be different in a brain that can classify the world linguistically
and categorize experiences in words. |
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Difference
between fear, anxiety, terror, apprehension, etc. would not be possible
without language. |
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Emotions evolved not as conscious feelings, but as brain states and bodily responses. |
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Brain states
and bodily responses are the fundamental facts of an emotion; conscious feelings are the frills that have added icing to the emotional cake. |
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Cortical connections with the amygdala are far greater in primates than in other mammals. |
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