This article highlights four issues about the neurobiology of emotions: adaptation vs. dysfunction, peripheral and central representations of emotion, the regulation of the internal milieu, and whether emotions are cognitive.
Scenarios integrate the many tasks of system development by first organizing the analysis of user needs, then serving as central representations of user needs that are developed in a systematic manner through design, evaluation, and documentation activities.
Our findings are inconsistent with extant 'exclusive' hypotheses which posit that the task demands direct nonconsciously elicited cognitive processes to be deployed over either central representations or peripheral representations.
On this possibility, the MCE that we observed in our study with novel primes would compel the conclusion that the MCE in our task stemmed from the overlap in processing of central representations.
A far more controversial claim by Dehaene et al. [16], and one that continues to be vigorously debated, holds that the 'chain of processes' applied to subliminal primes operate over central representations.
Thus, in some experiments it appears that the MCE stems from the overlap in processing of central representations, while in other experiments the MCE appears to stem from learned associations between specific physical forms and their appropriate responses.
