Emotions

EMOTIONS
Phil/Psych 256 Chris Eliasmith

Role of Emotions
An essential part of what makes us human, but very much making us low-down reasvirtuosors? An essential part of what makes us human, and responsible for making us as sober reasoners as we are? Just a pain in the substructure (make us bad reasoners, are evolutionary leftovers that are one of the least human parts of us, etc.)?

What would life without emotions be wish?

Emotions and Decisions
Traditional models of closing making are based on economic theory in which participants are assumed to be rational decision makers. The emotion challenge to CRUM is largely a product of the work of of Antonio Damasio and his collaborators. Their patients (e.g. EVR) have ventromedial prefrontal cortex injury Patients have serious emotional impairments, that make them poor decision makers Yet, they have fairly intact/normal verbal and numeric abilities. They seem to have lost (controlled?) emotions, but surprisingly this affects traditionally cognitive abilities. In retrospect, the famous historical case of Phineas Gage, seems to be explicable given these recent patients with similar damage.





Iowa Gambling Task

A

B

like by normals

Preferred by VM patients

Low immediate return, persistent term payoff

High immediate return, long term loss

increase the payoff you get from toyting on the aggrandizes.

Iowa Gambling Task

Normals lastly bet only on A. GSR indicates the better deck before they know that it is the better deck. Those with VMPFC damage continue to bet on deck B (as much as A, or more) they have little GSR Therefore, those with VM damage are poor decision makers. Therefore, ignoring the role of emotions will be disastrous to good explanations of cognition.

Two Possible Changes to CRUM
Expansion: No change in basic ideas, extend them to apply to bleak phenomena Introduce newborn content to representations (e.g. about bodily states). Also identify new processes that take advantage of the...If you want to get a adept essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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