250 likes | 735 Views
NEOCORTEX. reasoning – consciousness will – meaning. LIMBIC SYSTEM. Emotion – sensory relay bodily impulses. BRAIN STEM. Autonomic functions (breathing, etc.) coordination - arousal. Neural Patterns and how they function. Stimuli cause neurons to fire.
E N D
NEOCORTEX reasoning – consciousness will – meaning LIMBIC SYSTEM Emotion – sensory relay bodily impulses BRAIN STEM Autonomic functions (breathing, etc.) coordination - arousal
Neural Patterns and how they function Stimuli cause neurons to fire.
Neural Patterns and how they function Neurons activate in a network, creating a specific experience.
Neural Patterns and how they function Links from the experience remain after the experience has completed. The more the specific experience happens, the stronger the links become, creating a distinct Neural Pattern, and a propensity for the experience to happen again.
Neural Patterns and how they function As a new experience starts to happen, it involves one of the neurons in the associated network, and the original Neural Pattern is engaged, recreating the previous experience. From the work of psychologist Donald Hebb, as discussed in A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, MD, Fari Amini, MD, and Richard Lannon, MD. Vintage Books, NY 2000.