By Antonio Damasio
A number one professional of the neurophysiology of feelings, Damasio indicates how our recognition arose out of the advance of emotion. At its center human realization is recognition of the sensation and experiencing self.
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10 In background emotions, the constitutive responses are closer to the inner core of life, and their target is more internal than external. Profiles of the internal milieu and viscera play the lead part in back- ground emotions. 11 In my experience, background emotions are brave survivors of neurological disease. For instance, patients with ventromedial frontal damage retain them, as do patients with amygdala damage. Intriguingly, as you will discover in the next chapter, background emotions are usually compromised when the basic level of consciousness, core consciousness, is compromised as well.
Compare with the normal amygdalae of a control brain shown in the exact same sections in the two panels on the right. time regarding the contribution of the amygdalae to the learning of new facts, some investigators believing the amygdala was a vital partner to the hippocampus in the acquisition of new factual memory, other investigators believing it had little to contribute on that score. 17 I can make a long story short by telling you that there was nothing wrong whatsoever with S's ability to learn new facts.
The results were far more remarkable than we expected. S, along with other patients who also have damage to the amygdalae on both sides of the brain, looked at faces that you or I would consider trustworthy and classified them, quite correctly, as you or I would, as faces that one might approach in case of need. But when they looked at faces of which you or I would be suspicious, faces of persons that we would try to avoid, they judged them as equally trustworthy. The patients with damage to only one amygdala, the amnesic patients, and the other braindamaged patients performed as normals do.