PSYC 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anterior Nuclei Of Thalamus, Mammillothalamic Fasciculus, Olfactory Bulb

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 280
• Professor: Evan Caldbick

Document Summary

Psyc 280 - lecture 10 - emotions & attention. Broad categories of cognitive capacities w/ many questions about functional organization. Emotion - broadly refers to subjective experiences corresponding to diff physiology & distinct behaviour. Attention - broadly refers to selection & focus on particular stimuli. Stimulus perception/interpretation particular emotion experienced specific pattern of autonomic arousal. Stimulus perception/interpretation specific patterns of autonomic arousal particular emotion experienced. Stimulus perception general autonomic arousal & particular emotion experienced (simultaneous) Come from cross-cultural understandings of perception of emotional responses in others. Conversions b/w indivs & groups when it comes to perceptions of some emotions but others differ considerably. Important limbic network - in generation & perception of emotion - pap circuit. Starting at olfactory bulb, see innervation of basal forebrain nuclei & amygdala. Amygdala innervates hippocampus, which innervates mamillary body via fornix. Mammillary bodies innervate anterior thalamic nucleus via mammillothalamic tract & anterior thalamic nucleus innervates cingulate gyrus which projects back to hippocampus via singula.