Sylviane--Week 3

Sylviane Boddy

Like Amy, I found Demasio’s analysis of the prefrontal cortex, and its implications on connections between emotions and decision making, very interesting. This idea, which was also brought up Davidson and Irwin in regard to its role in positive and negative affect, was particularly intriguing to me because while I had already known that the prefrontal cortex played a major role in decision making, I was relatively unaware of its role in emotion. Because emotion plays a large role in decision making, it seems fit that these two functions would be in a sense, anatomically connected. Gage, who appeared to have trouble with emotional reasoning, seems to perfectly personify the link between emotion and decision making, revealing the important affect one has on the other.