Title |
Affective Neuronal Selection: The Nature of the Primordial Emotion Systems
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00589 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Judith A. Toronchuk, George F. R. Ellis |
Abstract |
Based on studies in affective neuroscience and evolutionary psychiatry, a tentative new proposal is made here as to the nature and identification of primordial emotional systems. Our model stresses phylogenetic origins of emotional systems, which we believe is necessary for a full understanding of the functions of emotions and additionally suggests that emotional organizing systems play a role in sculpting the brain during ontogeny. Nascent emotional systems thus affect cognitive development. A second proposal concerns two additions to the affective systems identified by Panksepp. We suggest there is substantial evidence for a primary emotional organizing program dealing with power, rank, dominance, and subordination which instantiates competitive and territorial behavior and is an evolutionary contributor to self-esteem in humans. A program underlying disgust reactions which originally functioned in ancient vertebrates to protect against infection and toxins is also suggested. |
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