Biology Of Emotion

Question 1

Increased activity of amygdala in convicted murderers

Answer 1

Raine et al, 1998

Only see when crimes associated with emotion

Question 2

View all studies on VmPf and amygdala

Answer 2

Including urbach-wiethe disease which damages amygdala and makes it hard to recognise fear

Question 3

Acting happy can make you happy

Answer 3

Rutledge and Harris (1985) - smile rated pictures more positively
Ekman et al (1983)
Schiff and Lamon (1994) facial muscles on left led to negative emotions, right led to more positive
Damage to right somatosensory cortex disrupts ability to recognise emotions (Adolphs et al, 2000)
Mirroring of others facial expressions helps us understand how they are feeling (Tamietto et al, 2009)

Question 4

Recognising and identifying facial expressions of emotions

Answer 4

Damage to this ability caused my damage in the somatosensory cortex of the right hemisphere Adolphs et al
Unconscious imitation of facial expressions of emotions Tamietto et al, 2009 - damage to the visual cortex, copied the smile or frown with own face

Question 5

The James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 5

An event in the environment triggers behavioural, autonomic, and endocrine responses, feedback from these responses produces feelings of emotions

Question 6

Phineas Gage

Answer 6

Damage caused him to have outbursts of temper and to be poor at judging social situations
Seen in recent years with damage to VmPf cortex (Anderson et al, 2006)
Outputs and inputs to parts of the brain that affect emotional responses in VmPf such as amygdala