According to Damasio, the emotional process begins with conscious considerations about the object in the form of mental images. These images correspond to a neuronal substrate (topographic representations) influenced by dispositional representations. At the unconscious level, the networks of the prefrontal cortex respond automatically and involuntarily to the signals resulting from the processing of the above images, according to the dispositional representations, acquired on the basis of personal rather than innate experience. The response is signaled to the amygdala and anterior cingulate, activating the nuclei of the autonomic nervous system and signaling to the body through peripheral nerves. DOI: 10.13140 / RG.2.2.32221.44008
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