Friday, January 3, 2014

Bodily maps of emotions

Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. As one would expect, the body looks like it shuts down with depression, and it lights up with happiness, but it's the subtle differences that are most interesting. Read how statistical classifiers were used to distinguished emotion-specific activation maps accurately:

http://flowingdata.com/2014/01/02/body-maps-show-where-we-feel-emotion/

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