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How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Mirror Neurons in the Brain

Psychologists have lots of different names for this. What these are basically, these signals is just that your brain drawing on its past experience to predict what's going to happen next in a given situation. So it's very similar to what you see in all the sensory systems actually and psychologists can call it simulation, perceptual inference or memory.

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