History

Cards (4)

  • Affective neuroscience
    Field that seeks to understand the underlying neural mechanisms that make emotions
  • James - Lange theory of emotion

    The body's physical reaction preceded the emotion
  • Cannon - Bard theory of emotion

    Saw that cats with no SNS and paraplegics still felt emotions, and that physiological changes don't always end in emotions. New theory that emotional stimuli produces simultaneous and independent emotional response and activation of the sympathetic nervous system
  • Visual agnosia
    Inability to recognize faces or objects visually