From: NPR
To Get From Experience to Emotion, the Brain Hits ‘Sustain’
June 4, 2025
Get cut off in rush-hour traffic and you may feel angry for the whole trip, or even snap at a noisy child in the back seat.
Get an unexpected smile from that same kid and you may feel like rush hour — and even those other drivers — aren’t so bad.
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“Sure, [a sustained signal] happens in emotion,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. “But it also happens in all kinds of other instances,” like when a person is concentrating or remembering.
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