Essays about: "somatic marker hypothesis"

Found 4 essays containing the words somatic marker hypothesis.

1. 1. Mind, body, and choice: A review of alexithymia and the somatic-marker hypothesis

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Henrik Snellman; [2022]
   Keywords : alexithymia; somatic marker hypothesis; neuroimaging;

   Abstract : This paper examined the claims postulated by the somatic marker hypothesis and compares those claims to the current evidence surrounding the neural basis of alexithymia. The results were then compared to see if they contradict or have a distinct localisation in the brain separate from those behavioural brain regions hypothesized by the somatic marker hypothesis. READ MORE

3. 2. The Impetuous Voice of Reason : Emotion versus reason in moral decision-making

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Erik Svenning; [2018]
   Keywords : Moral decision-making; emotional decision-making; somatic marker hypothesis; social intuitionist model; the dual process theory; the event-feature-emotion complexes;

   Abstract : This is a review of what the currently dominant theories of moral decision-making are and where they derive from. While the introduction serves as a common ground to explain what moral decision-making is, the earlier parts of the thesis describe older traditionalist theories within the field,  theories of emotional decision-making, in the form of the somatic marker hypothesis, as well as critique of the older traditionalist theories through the social intuitionist model. READ MORE

4. 3. The Neuroscience of Decision Making : The Importance of Emotional Neural Circuits in Decision Making

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Markus Karlsson; [2018]
   Keywords : neuroscience; somatic marker hypothesis; decision making; free will; moral responsibility;

   Abstract : The neuroscience of decision making is laying the puzzle of how the brain computes decisions. It tries to sort out which factors are responsible for causing us to choose one way or the other. This thesis reviews to what extent emotional brain processes and their neural circuits impact decision making. READ MORE

5. 4. The Emotional Influence on Human Decision-making : On Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Author : Henrik Levinsson; [2004]
   Keywords : Damasio; Emotions; somatic marker; Philosophical anthropology; Filosofisk antropologi; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : According to Damasio, emotions are essential for the decision-making process in the personal and social domain. This idea supports Damasio's ?somatic marker hypothesis?. The hypothesis is about how emotions function to guide human decision-making processes. READ MORE