1. Notes:
1. Exam corrections and assignment 3 due Thursday.
2. Last exam – last day of class
3. Chapter 24 reading assignment -
pgs

2. Human Neuropsychology (486 / 686) Lecture Chapter 20
“Emotion” . 2

3. Feeling Emotion
Six basic emotional expressions: Sadness Happiness, Surprise, Fear, Anger, Disgust

4. What is Emotion? Four behavioral components of emotion Physiology
Distinctive motor behavior
Self-reported cognition
Unconscious behavior

5. Historical Views:
Investigating the Anatomy – diencephalon and affective responses
The Emotional Brain – Papez
Cortical Connections of Emotion – Klüver Bucy Syndrome, Psychosurgery

7. Studies in Normal Subjects
Production of Affective Behavior –
facial expression
Perception of relevant stimuli –
vision, audition
Personality differences

8. Brain Circuits for Emotion
Amygdala and Prefrontal cortex especially important

9. Neuropsychological Theories of Emotion
Damasio’s Somatic Marker Hypothesis - When confronted with a stimulus of biological importance, the brain and body change
- fundamental to survival
necessary for rationale decisions

10. Neuropsychological Theories of Emotion
LeDoux’s Cognitive-Emotional Interactions -

11. Neuropsychological Theories of Emotion
Cognitive Asymmetry and Emotion
Right hemisphere more engaged in automatic components of emotion
Generates strong emotions
Left hemisphere plays a role in the cognitive control of emotion
Interprets emotions

12. Asymmetry in Emotional Processing

13. Asymmetry in Emotional Processing
The Production of Emotional Behavior
Left hemisphere – depression, emotional reactions
Right hemisphere – indifference, tone of voice

14. Asymmetry in Emotional Processing

15. Asymmetry: Temporal Lobe Damage Right temporal lobe – obsessive
Left temporal
lobe – personal
destiny

16. Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Understanding Other’s Actions
STS, Premotor cortex
Understanding Other’s Mind
Frontal lobe, Amygdala, STS cortex
The Self and Social Cognition
Right frontoparietal network, Cortical midline network
Cognitive Control of Emotion
prefrontal and cingulate cortex