Disgust was the first emotion I remember feeling in response to Goya’s Por Que? piece. When the Art Historian explained the history of the war behind the pieces, my disgust only increased. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress explains that, “Disgust has been studied only in humans, where fMRI suggests that a region called the insula and the nearby putamen (part of the basal ganglia), not the amygdala are activated when we see or hear someone expressing disgust” (471). Later on in the text they say, “There is no one-to-one correspondence between an emotion and a brain region; that is, each emotion involves activity of more than one brain region, and some brain regions are involved in more than one emotion” (471). This has been proved in studies where they show people pictures of stimulating photos of disgusting nature, monitoring on the MRI screen what parts of the brain “light up.” This picture is compared to a control picture of the person not feeling disgusted. The difference in the areas is how strongly those areas are connected to the feeling of disgust. This sort of experiment has been done for an array of differing emotions. When I felt disgusted looking at the artwork and then later hearing the background story behind the piece, those regions of my brain were helping produce that
Disgust was the first emotion I remember feeling in response to Goya’s Por Que? piece. When the Art Historian explained the history of the war behind the pieces, my disgust only increased. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress explains that, “Disgust has been studied only in humans, where fMRI suggests that a region called the insula and the nearby putamen (part of the basal ganglia), not the amygdala are activated when we see or hear someone expressing disgust” (471). Later on in the text they say, “There is no one-to-one correspondence between an emotion and a brain region; that is, each emotion involves activity of more than one brain region, and some brain regions are involved in more than one emotion” (471). This has been proved in studies where they show people pictures of stimulating photos of disgusting nature, monitoring on the MRI screen what parts of the brain “light up.” This picture is compared to a control picture of the person not feeling disgusted. The difference in the areas is how strongly those areas are connected to the feeling of disgust. This sort of experiment has been done for an array of differing emotions. When I felt disgusted looking at the artwork and then later hearing the background story behind the piece, those regions of my brain were helping produce that