Cognition and Emotion

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AbstractThis paper discusses the relationship between emotion and cognition. It is probably non-productive to attempt to separate emotion from cognition. Emphasis is laid on the interdependence between cognition and emotion in ways that challenge the simple division of labor into separate emotional and cognitive domains. In the context of psychology and the mind, general dichotomization alluded to emotion and cognition in terms of subcortical-emotional and cortical-cognitive areas of the brain is especially now seen as simplified, thus breaking down quite fast when a deeper analysis or research is carried out. IntroductionCognition refers to processes like attention, memory, planning, problem solving and language. Thus many a time, cognitive processes can involve sophisticated functions which may be unique to primates. Cognitive processes usually ...

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