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Triggering & Executing Emotions

Triggering & Executing Emotions
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How are emotions triggered? Quite simply, by images of objects or events that are actually happening at the moment or that, having happened in the past, are now being recalled. The situation you are in makes a difference for the emotional apparatus. You may be actually inhabiting a scene of your life and responding to a musical performance or to the presence of a friend; or you may be alone and remembering a conversation that upset you the day before. Whether “live”, reconstructed from memory, or created from scratch in one’s imagination, the images initiate a chain of events. Signals from the processed images are made available to several regions of the brain. Some of those regions are involved in language, others in movement, others in manipulations that constitute reasoning. Activity in any of those regions leads to a variety of responses: words with which you can label a certain object; rapid evocations of other images that allow you to conclude something about an object; and so forth. Importantly, signals from the images that represent a certain object also land in regions capable of triggering specific kinds of emotional chain reaction. This is the case of the amygdala, for example, in situations of fear; or of the ventromedical prefrontal cortex in situations causing compassion. . . . Page 119
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