Emotions

[David V Baldwin]

Shaw Green (shawg at aisb.ed.ac.uk) wrote:

:  Does anyone have any more up todate references on the role of the 
:  limbic system particularly the hippocampus and amygdala in the 
:  production of the emotional responses we feel to certain stimula. What 
:  for instance is the current view of how certain peoples faces can 
:  generate a fearful response ? obviously there is some memory involved 
:  here but how are memories of facial characteristics linked to 
:  emotions.  [....]

There are some useful references on this topic at my Trauma Info Pages web 
site (see sig file for 2 URLs), though no simple answers. 

Hope you find the information there helpful. 

                                   david
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