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Prime elements of subjectively experienced feelings and desires: Imaging the emotional cocktail

2012; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0140525x11001579

1469-1825

Ross Buck,

Face Recognition and Perception

Abstract Primary affects exist at an ecological-communicative level of analysis, and therefore are not identifiable with specific brain regions. The constructionist view favored in the target article, that emotions emerge from “more basic psychological processes,” does not specify the nature of these processes. These more basic processes may actually involve specific neurochemical systems, that is, primary motivational-emotional systems (primes), associated with specific feelings and desires that combine to form the “cocktail” of experienced emotion.