CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bunraku, The Emotions, Albemarle Street
14 Mar 2017
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Why look at emotion in cognitive science: cognitive research has historically focused on "cold" cognition. ***cognition: the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses: however, over the past 30 years a growing number of researchers have investigated the relationship between cognition and emotion. What is emotion? feeling, or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience, and behavioural expression: usually emotion is distinguished from mood due its episodic nature. What does emotion do for us? emotions can motivate us to perform actions: determine behavioural reactions to events, especially social situations: relevance detection response preparation communicate internal state to others. Parasympathetic: relating to the part of the automatic nervous system that counterbalances the action of the sympathetic nerves. It consists of nerves arising from the brain and the lower end of the spinal cord and supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands.
