Valences spread along valence links, and also along activation links. Overall emotional assessment is measured by the valence of a unit after the network has settled. Applications Intuition Gut feelings are intuitions that emerge from emotional parallel constraint satisfaction. The decision to trust or not to trust someone usually involves an emotional judgment based on explanatory, conceptual, and analogical coherence. Empathy is a kind of analogical transfer that creates links between the source and the target that allows valences to spread.
Persuasion works the same way.
Metacoherence Overall emotional reactions such as happiness, sadness, and surprise require activation of nodes that compute the general state of the network. Assignment Modelling assignment 5 is due March 29.