ONCE scientists returned, at last, to the study of consciousness it was only a matter of time before emotions engaged their attention, not just emotional behavior, but the inner conscious feelings that accompany it: experiences of fear, anger, sadness, joy and more.
Techniques include using food, scheduling, art, music and exercise to generate positive emotions; engaging patients in activities that salvage fragments of their skills; and helping caregivers be more accepting and competent.
Klapow underscored this point, noting that social interaction can serve as a buffer against depression-like symptoms, since being around others helps keep your mind and emotions engaged.
Low-arousal emotions engaged a different network centered on hippocampal regions and VMPFC including the subgenual anterior cingulate.
In a series of PET experiments aimed to investigate the neural basis of emotion and feeling, the authors mentioned that emotions engaged structures related to the representation and/or regulations of organism state, such as the insular cortex, secondary somatosensory cortex, cingulated cortex and so on.
Analysis revealed several themes: effectiveness for expressing emotion, engaging and energising quality of the task, time for reflection, flexibility for individual learning styles, and therapeutic value.
In both "This Progress" (2010) and "These Associations" (2012) Mr Sehgal's performers used space and their own bodies and emotions to engage the public in joint meditations on progress and personal transformation respectively.
The bigger point: you have to be primed in a very different way—seeing racism absolutely everwhere to skip over "Saturn" and "planets" and think that a greeting-card maker whose brand is synonymous with safe, prepackaged emotions would engage in blatant (and non-sequitur) racism in a card congratulating a recent graduate.
Kaspar has been created at University of Hertfordshire, UK to help children with autism understand how to read emotions and engage with other people, but it falls into what's often called "the uncanny valley".
Our emotions are engaged, but so are our critical faculties.
