Explain the relationship of emotion and attention. Describe the differential effects of RF vs. PH lesions and discuss the implications regarding emotional behavior. Explain what P.T. Young meant by three properties of stimuli. Describe the role of the posterior hypothalamus in emotion. The term emotion refers to behavior and feelings.
Feelings are subjective and difficult to measure empirically.
Components of same behavior taken as an indicant of emotion seen in non-emotional context. Early Theories of Emotion James-Lange Theory James proposed that bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Lange's modification indicated that vasomotor changes are the emotions Both viewed emotion as the perception of a response by the nervous system. Both suggest that the underlying processes perceived as emotions are autonomic. Free glycogen from liver for muscles.