PSYO 2470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neocortex, Spatial Memory, Brainstem
2 May 2017
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Bodily responses that evolved as a part of survival: autonomic nervous system changes, ways of talking or acting, physiological response, how we react to something, ex. Heart rate, sweating response, digestive system shutting down. Mental states when brain sense bodily responses: thoughts about situations in which an individual finds themselves, unconscious vs. conscious experience. Emotions play a key role in decision making. Mostly focus on eyes and mouth to give information about emotion when interacting: expressions of emotion seen across humans as well as animals, emotions a product of evolution. Connections between our internal thoughts and external expressions. Hypothesized that animals expression certain emotions were selected for: allowed universal expression across species. Expression of emotion evolve from behaviours that signal intention. Signals beneficial to animal displaying them, communicative functions evolve. Opposite messages often signaled by opposite movements: antithesis, correlation between a mood of an animal and certain facial expressions.
