PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Caudate Nucleus, Tegmentum, Deodorant
10 Apr 2019
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The brain activity of 20 participants who were madly and happily in love" were scanned using functional magnetic resonance using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) Excluded anyone with piercing on head (could affect the fmri) and left handed lovers (they can have different structure activity on right handed) Said bring a picture of a beloved, anyone who you have strong emotion towards. What part of your brain becomes more functional when you are shown the picture. Particular part of brain starts to glow when the person is looking at the image of the beloved. Findings: high activity in the caudate nucleus. High activity in the ventral tegmental area was found (vta) This region produces dopamine making calls and distributed dopamine to many brain regions. The language associate with love is negative i fell in love, he swooped me off my feet, my heart is broken. Study by fisher, brown, aron, strong and mashek (2010.
