Episode 135: The Science of Emotion
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Role of the Amygdala in Emotional Processing
There is no one region of the brain that is responsible for emotional processing generally. Emotions serve to represent some kind of state, typically an interaction between a motivational state and the realization or failure to realize that motivational state. So fear represents acute threats, anger, obstruction of goals, disgust,. perception of disease, joy, attainment of goals and so forth.
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