A report on Emotion
Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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Rosalind Picard
1 linksAmerican scholar and inventor who is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica.
American scholar and inventor who is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica.
The Affective Computing Research Group develops tools, techniques, and devices for sensing, interpreting, and processing emotion signals that drive state-of-the-art systems that respond intelligently to human emotional states.
PAD emotional state model
1 linksPsychological model developed by Albert Mehrabian and James A. Russell to describe and measure emotional states.
Psychological model developed by Albert Mehrabian and James A. Russell to describe and measure emotional states.
PAD uses three numerical dimensions, Pleasure, Arousal and Dominance to represent all emotions.
Paul D. MacLean
1 linksAmerican physician and neuroscientist who made significant contributions in the fields of physiology, psychiatry, and brain research through his work at Yale Medical School and the National Institute of Mental Health.
American physician and neuroscientist who made significant contributions in the fields of physiology, psychiatry, and brain research through his work at Yale Medical School and the National Institute of Mental Health.
During his time at Yale, he also studied the brain mechanisms of emotion with Dr. John Fulton.
Barbara Fredrickson
0 linksAmerican professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology.
American professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology.
Fredrickson is a social psychologist who conducts research in emotions and positive psychology.
Jesse Prinz
0 linksDistinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Distinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and ethics and has authored several books and over 100 articles, addressing such topics as emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness.
Nico Frijda
0 linksDutch psychologist and professor of the University of Amsterdam.
Dutch psychologist and professor of the University of Amsterdam.
Frijda devoted his career to human emotions.
Émile Durkheim
0 linksFrench sociologist.
French sociologist.
"The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or common consciousness."In particular, the emotional part of the collective consciousness overrides our egoism: as we are emotionally bound to culture, we act socially because we recognize it is the responsible, moral way to act.
Autobiographical memory
0 linksMemory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.
Memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.
The main reason for this is probably that the observer perspective distances the person from the traumatic event, allowing them to recall the specifics and details of the event without having to relive the feelings and emotions.
James Papez
0 linksJames Wenceslas Papez (
James Wenceslas Papez (
He is most famous for his 1937 description of the Papez circuit which is a neural pathway in the brain thought to be involved in the cortical control of emotion.
Philosophy of music
0 linksStudy of "fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it".
Study of "fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it".
There has been a strong tendency in the aesthetics of music to emphasize the paramount importance of compositional structure; however, other issues concerning the aesthetics of music include lyricism, harmony, hypnotism, emotiveness, temporal dynamics, resonance, playfulness, and color (see also musical development).