Facial Recognition & Emotion

Question 1

face recognition

Answer 1

many low-level differences between faces and objects

Question 2

Facial Study

Answer 2

faces –> FFA is activated, localized to the right hemisphere
objects –> temporal visual stream

Question 3

FFA

Answer 3

is selective for face perception

Question 4

emotion

Answer 4

• we experience emotion to aid decision-making
• purpose is to arrive at choices

Question 5

Orbitofrontal

Answer 5

• identifies the link between decision making
• affected in Phineas Gage
• processing, evaluating, and filtering social and emotional info

Question 6

emotional decision-making

Answer 6

somatic marker (physiological response that your body is experiencing)
- gut feeling
-body reaction to decision making (working memory is too busy, emotions merely restrict possibilities)
Damasio: Patients with OF lesions (do not have physiological response - emotions) –> (ex: the guy who would do everything he touched –> sunglasses and caphater)