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Research area: Experimenting the cross-correlation in cognitive neuroscience to reveal the biological mechanism via/through technology for educational purposes by demonstrating the reaction of the brain sensory neuron circuitry.

Cognitive neuroscience has a state of focus on neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes. This directs the question on the functionalities of cognitive activities and how neural circuits in the brain are controlled.  This study for our focused concept interrelates with interoception where an internal sensory system in which the internal physical and emotional states of the body are noticed, recognised/identified and responded to (Goodall, 2016). Our project is designed around ‘measuring the skills that are required for a range of basic and more advanced functions in order to manage your emotions proactively’. This focuses on the correlations of being either happy sad or angry with mixed emotions.  These aspects largely contribute towards the autonomic nervous system which controls system that acts widely unconsciously and regulates bodily functions such as heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary responses, urination, and sexual arousal. 

The autonomic nervous system controls the insides of the body: the viscera or gut. It carries information about the inside of the body to the CNS and controls the action of internal organs, including the gut, the heart, the secretion of epinephrine (adrenalin) and norepinephrine (noradrenalin) from the medulla (middle part) of the adrenal gland, etc.

In relation to body functionalities, these are the organs that are internally felt under conditions as well. For example; mental or physical health, physical pain, happiness (feels funny in the guts) mixed with the other emotions when guts are mostly felt etc... 

The system is the primary mechanism in control of the fight-or-flight responses (Autonomic nervous system, 2018).

With all these assumptions, in the ‘measure of emotions’ literature, the findings are examined from both dimensional and discrete perspectives. According to the dimensional perspective, there are a few fundamental dimensions that organise emotional responses. The most commonly assumed dimensions are valence, arousal which sometimes referred to as activation and approach-avoidance. The valence dimensions contrasts states of pleasure (e.g. happy) with states of displeasure (e.g. sad) and the arousal dimensions contrasts sates of low arousal (e.g. quite) with states of high arousal (e.g. surprised). Researchers disagree to some extend about which dimensions scheme should be used and how different dimensions relate to each other (Robinson, 2009).

I personally agree with this given disagreement as different form of emotions are provoked variously which may be exposed as mixed emotions while the person experiencing the dimensions feel either. The dimensions change rapidly without physically or emotionally informing the individuals. This is the case if biological mechanism. The theorists state that positive and negative emotions are inversely relating but others favour the view that positive and negative emotions are relatively independent of each other.

In contrast to my approved argument off research, the discrete emotions perspective contends that each emotion corresponds to a unique profile in experience. Experimental evidence suggests that emotions can both speed-up and show-down in the internal clock. Speeding up has been observed for to-be-timed emotional stimuli that have the capacity to sustain attention, whereas slowing down has been observed for to-be-times neutral stimuli that are presented in the context of emotional distractors (Schirmer, 2011).

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Bibliography

Autonomic nervous system. (2018, 07 30). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system

Goodall, E. (2016). Interoception 101. Retrieved from http://web.seru.sa.edu.au/pdfs/Introception.pdf

Neuroskeptic. (2015, 04 21). Discover. Retrieved from Synesthesia: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/04/21/is-synesthesia-a-brain-disorder/#.W2wY_tIzaUl

Robinson, I. B. (2009, 02 01). Retrieved from Measures of emotion:: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756702/

Schirmer, A. (2011). How Emotions Change Time. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3207328/