Dear Sirs,
On my believe our behavior is managed grossly by our emotions embedded in us. For example I do not like smoke but I smoked sometimes when I was young. I do not like so much alcohol beverages, you know.. I can continue this list longly. If we do not account for social and other influences a man becomes what his emotions are.
Is there an investigation of a location of emotions in the brain? Are they differentiated yet in brain by means, e,g, fMRI, or invasive methods?
Thank you for an advance
Emotions were formed in the course of evolution as the two polar categories. Category "bad or dangerous" and category "good or satisfying". This polarity of emotions helps with other brain functions adequately adapt and create in society and nature.
Please evaluate the very clear link below. And some articles un the attachment.
http://www.healing-arts.org/n-r-limbic.htm
I agree with Vladimir, but it's really important that you match the words on word frequency and AoA in the word pairs but especially between groups. I don't know if you are conducting any within-subjects or between-subjects techniques, but the stimulus characteristics can have a severe effect on recall, so it is important that you match the words for as many characteristics as possible, such as word frequency, AoA, number of syllables etc I have published an article where we used a cognitive intervention and this was repeated over a number of trials and the words that were used were matched on certain characteristics... It is available Researchgate and has a table of the words that were used and you are welcome to take them words that helps.
Good luck,
Nick
Dear Dr. Nicholas Almond,
Thank you very much for your information. I do not conduct studies with words recall but I took into account your article. Thank you very much.
Good luck,
Anatoly
@ Anatoly A Khripov: have You ever ever heard of the limbic system? I suggest some basic reading on that in recent text books or review articles.
Certainly, there is no centre for emotions in the brain. Nevertheless, some structures are more regularly implied in emotional states, e.g. the amygdala. I have the impression that the ventral parts of the cortex including their loop-connections with the basal ganglia are more implied in emotional states, with some tendency towards rostral region as the OFC.
Archicortex and adjacent cortical areas plus limbic subcortical grisea are the brain structures for emotions.
1. What are the experiments we can conduct to catch emotions? fMRI, SQUIDS, invasive electrodes in brain?
2. Seems to me here psychological and philosophy questions arise what emotions are for a particular man? Frequently we become kind or angry very fast. Do we control ourself, I mean consciously?
My opinion (I am nuclear physicist :)) that maybe big percent of our intellect is hidden from our self!
V sorry for the delayed comments on this topic.
It is very difficult pinned down to one single center for emotions. Firstly, one need to dissect out emotional features - happiness, anger, curiosity, fear, aggression, etc. As C Darwin said there are lot of similarities between human and animal emotions. He said this based on the similarities in the facial expressions between them. This theory allowed us to move towards animal research.
Several scientists, including my lab are in search of center for emotions. We found that amygdala is loci for fear and this brain regions get connected to several brain regions while recalling such threatful stimuli.
pl refer to some of our work: Laxmi TR in the pubmed.
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