The Physiology of Emotion (Psychology)

By George Fielding Blandford M. D.

The Physiology of Emotion by George Fielding Blandford, M. D. THE object of this paper is, to examine the physical accompaniments of mental action, and, chiefly, to discuss the nature of the feelings or emotions which accompany the various conditions of body and mind; in fact, to lay down the theory that feeling (or emotion, which is another name for high and complex feeling) is the state which accompanies the excitation of a nerve centre or centres, being pleasant or painful according to the condition of the centre, or the intensity of the excitation. Supposing this view to be correct, there is no need to allot one place in the brain to the intellectual and another to the emotional portion of the mind, neither can we discuss them apart. The intellectual or idea function, the thinking and working function of the mind, may be supposed to depend on the intercommunication of the nerve cells or centres of the entire hemispheres, carried on by means of the nerve-fibres, this interaction being accompanied by a feeling or emotion peculiar to the centres acting, but which varies according to their physical state at the moment of excitation, or that produced by the excitation itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1727079728
• ISBN13: 9781727079722
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.0"