PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Episodic Memory, Crossmodal, Lie Detection

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2100
• Professor: Jordan S

Document Summary

Emotions play a central role in non-verbal communication that is independent (but can supplement) of verbal communication: the words we say are as important as our gestures, prosodic: the tone of voices, emotion intonation of words. In principle, emotions are one of the hardest phenomenon to classify due to physiological cognitive and social components. Philosophy typically distinguishes between emotions and reason such that rational = good and emotions = bad. In descartes" error damasio reviewed a number of cases wherein he observed dysfunction of reasoning and emotional processes. Positive: dopamine and endorphins have both been associated with positive affective learning. Oxytocin is associated with bonding and prosocial behaviour. Negative: amygdala activation is correlated with fear-related responses although it shows activation for other stimuli that are associated with emotional stimuli: also involved in cross-modal associations as well as condition wherein affect is associated to neutral stimuli.