Physiological Basis of Emotion and Thought

Traditionally emotion has been thought that it is irrational, so it has to be inhibited and controlled. But emotion of all animal including human being has neurophysiological similarity that is inherited. That is because emotion has helped our adaptation and survival in the evolutionary history of all animal. When we are in emotional state, we can think something important to happen for us. The concept of emotional intelligence means the ability of interacting emotion and thought closely. The emotion and thought has clearly different neurophysiological structures. We can understand concretely emotion and thought are very different constituents of mind through split-brain and brain damage patients. But the neural structures of emotion and thought are interconnected very closely in the anatomical sense. The experimental studies of conditioned fear learning shows the functional interrelations of emotion and thought. The human emotional behaviors in the social situation depend on the interaction of amygdala and frontal cerebral cortex. If any one of these structures were damaged, human could not live in the normal emotional state. The neurophysiological studies help us to understand the two constituents of mind, that is emotion and thought, concretely and objectively in the different way of philosophers' intuitional thinking. We understand that emotion and thought can help our survival through their cooperation. This way of understanding can make the interests about emotion revive and our latent ability of mind expand, so we can live more healthfully.

keywords: 정서, 사고, 정서지능, 신경생리학적 연구들, emotion, thought, emotion intelligence, neurophysiological studies, emotion, thought, emotion intelligence, neurophysiological studies

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Vol.9 No.1

Physiological Basis of Emotion and Thought

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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology