***mentalizing = ToM
1/30 - Mindreading I
➔ Triangle triangle circle video; Ikea ad
◆ Humans tend to emotionally anthropomorphize EVERYTHING
➔ From perception to understanding
◆ Perceiving emotions from facial expressions
○ Perceiving: objective observational; “this is a cookie”
○ Feeling: attaching emotion; “I feel hungry”
● 6 universal emotions: happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, surprise
○ Neural basis:
◆ FEAR: amy
● SM (complete bilateral amy destruction) shows
strong deficits when trying to recognize fear (fine
w/other emotions)
○ Seeing whites of eyes drives up amy
response in normal people
○ Patient SM also doesn’t fixate on eyes as
much; focuses more on nose
◆ DISGUST: insula and BG
○ How universal are they?
◆ Constructionist approach
● Conceptualization: takes input and translates it based on what you know
about the world
● Core affect:
● language:
◆ Mentalizing (ToM)