Personal Review Of The Book 'Accidental Mind'
Alyssa Walker
COR-110-32
Assignment #4
12-02-2010
Black, White, and Color
Who am I? That is the hardest question to answer for a college freshman. In a sense my life has just begun. I am finally on my own trying to figure out who I am and what I want to do with my life. Does anyone find out who they are as a person at the age of eighteen? This is the age where a major transition is made from teen to a legal adult. I am going from being a child to being on my own making my own decisions. When I look at myself I see so many different things, some are things I learned in the past and I carry with me and others are things I hope to achieve or become. In Core 110 this year I learned that I could connect myself into what we were learning through studying psychology and science. At the …show more content…
Linden, he discusses how perception is tied to emotion. Linden states, “Clearly, the perception/emotion distinction cuts deep into the way we think about the brain and the ways we deal with its dysfunctions” (Linden 98). He is basically saying that the time we realize or are aware of a sensation, emotions are already engaged. Two examples are Capgras Syndrome and people who have been blinded by damage to the primary visual cortex. Capgras syndrome is when someone can still visually identify objects and human faces, but they don’t evoke any emotional feeling. People who are blinded by damage to the primary visual cortex can accurately locate an object in their visual field even though they have no conscious awareness of seeing anything (Linden 99). “The important point here is that visual information is rapidly fed into emotional centers in the brain, which make it impossible to separate emotion from perception in experience” (Linden 100). Linden concludes that the examples may only use vision, the principle still applies broadly to all of the sense, “emotions is integral to sensation and the two are not easily separated” (Linden
COR-110-32
Assignment #4
12-02-2010
Black, White, and Color
Who am I? That is the hardest question to answer for a college freshman. In a sense my life has just begun. I am finally on my own trying to figure out who I am and what I want to do with my life. Does anyone find out who they are as a person at the age of eighteen? This is the age where a major transition is made from teen to a legal adult. I am going from being a child to being on my own making my own decisions. When I look at myself I see so many different things, some are things I learned in the past and I carry with me and others are things I hope to achieve or become. In Core 110 this year I learned that I could connect myself into what we were learning through studying psychology and science. At the …show more content…
Linden, he discusses how perception is tied to emotion. Linden states, “Clearly, the perception/emotion distinction cuts deep into the way we think about the brain and the ways we deal with its dysfunctions” (Linden 98). He is basically saying that the time we realize or are aware of a sensation, emotions are already engaged. Two examples are Capgras Syndrome and people who have been blinded by damage to the primary visual cortex. Capgras syndrome is when someone can still visually identify objects and human faces, but they don’t evoke any emotional feeling. People who are blinded by damage to the primary visual cortex can accurately locate an object in their visual field even though they have no conscious awareness of seeing anything (Linden 99). “The important point here is that visual information is rapidly fed into emotional centers in the brain, which make it impossible to separate emotion from perception in experience” (Linden 100). Linden concludes that the examples may only use vision, the principle still applies broadly to all of the sense, “emotions is integral to sensation and the two are not easily separated” (Linden