Emotions Flashcards
Papez-Circuit theory
Thought stream: anterior thalamus - cingulate cortex - hippocampus - fornix - mammilary bodies - anterior thalamus
Papez-Circuit theory
Feeling stream: anterior thalamus - mammilary bodies - cingluate cortex - anterior thalamus - cingulate cortex
Cannon-Bard theory
hypothalamus is central to emotion e neocortex helps to inhibit emotions
Mcclean theory
center of emotion: lymbic system
Ekman and Friesen theory
6 basic emotions: sad, happy, fear, disgust, anger, surprise
Feldman-Barret theory
system of emotions with 2 axes (arousal and pleasantness)
Different emotions recruit different regions: anxiety (more intense bodily feelings) recruit sub-cortical lymbic regions more than sadness
Amygdala
Anterior to hippocampus
Involved in emotional contents of memory and learning Reward/punishment associations
2 pathways for emotional recognition in the amygdala
slow: cortical-via, early visual cortices
fast: subcortical-via mid brain (superior colliculus) and thalamus
threat conditioning is possible without self-experience? why?
Paviovian Group, observation group, instruction group
Stronger response to fear
right amygdala
Bilateral amygdala damage
poor recognition of facil expressions of fear
Insula importante para que?
taste, pain perception, interoception (monotoring bodily responses)
Orbitofrontal cortex faz o que?
envolvido no self-monotoring behaviour
Damage in orbitofrontal cortex
poor regulation of their behaviour no entanto eles reconhecem que foram inapropriados quando veem videos deles
Lateral orbitofrontal cortex
correlates withh satiety and unplesantess