Sunday, June 22, 2008

On Antonio Damasio’s the hypothesis of feeling

Antonio Damasio in his book The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness,based on a lot of neuroscientific discovery and he participated in such a experiment: nervuscentralis surgerying to a patient with trigeminal neuralgia,the Surgical operation damaged some precentral gyrus ,which concerns the neurotransmission of emotional pathway, but it had no effects on the neural pathway of opens onto somatosensory area. The results are: the patient reported that although there was a similar pain from the same position, the intensity was markedly weakened [74 to 76]. he put forward the hypothesis: any feeling is consists of two psychological profiles, one is the first-order map, the other is a accompanying emotion.These two psychological profiles are from two different neural pathways , and then they hang together in the second-order map area ,therefore integrated feeling about one stimulation comes into existence(279 ~ 284).
His the hypothesis of feeling made up of emotion and sensations ,which so to speak is a new discovery and explanation on the histological structure of the feeling, and reveals its deep essence. Also it indicated that the independence of the emotional feeling in the feeling.
I believe it still has some important potential values of his this hypothesis, which have respect to some important problems of emotion research.

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