[COP3]Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images & Online resources

Skeptic=person who is leery, unbelieving, disbeliever
ridicule=ridiculous verb
notwithstanding=overall, despite
perceptual= emotional, emotive, concerning feelings
salient=noticeable, important, arresting

'Sterne's objections notwithstanding, these early face-interpretation systems, based on our empathetic responses, importantly recognised that the "body over there reminds me of my own body and my experience also contains the bodies of others."'(Stafford, 2007:82)

Stafford introduced an important research on cognitive response from imagery, seeing the world in the same way she described, by using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Scientists want to discover if audience viewing the same section of a film would invoke synchronised respond from all audience by a common stimulus. The result is, individual brains , he described as 'tick together' synchronically. It is said to be triggered by the key emotional moments like those often captured in photographs and in movie.(Stafford, 2007:84)

Emotions for things that do not even exist

According to Newen and Barlassina, the new theory is also superior to Jesse Prinz's most sophisticated theory of emotions so far, because this does not take into account that an emotion can also be directed at an object that is not present or does not even exist. A case study: Karl goes with his girlfriend Antje to a new bar. Because Karl has already been served by the barkeeper Fritz, Antje waits alone at the bar. Karl hears that she is insulted, but does not see by whom. He assumes it is Fritz. In the meantime, however, Fritz has left the room and John, an employee, is at the bar. He passes the insult and then leaves immediately. When Karl comes to the bar to vent his anger at the insult, Fritz is back. Karl is angry with Fritz although the cause of his bodily states associated with the feeling of anger was the utterance by John. The cause, John, and the object of the anger, namely Fritz, do not coincide. The object of anger is also known as the intentional object of anger, because it does not have to exist. People can even experience emotions about things that aren't real, for example, fear of vampires. While all feeling theories of emotion overlook the intentional object as an essential part of the emotion, the cognitive theories do tend to forget the feeling dimension of the emotion. Only the integrative embodiment theory takes all these components into account as constitutive of the emotion.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160922085352.htm

comment:
I find look at information in different area extremely helpful. I can see anthropomorphism exists not just in animation but we are associating with it daily. The scientific approach to this topic definitely help building up more depth in my essay and allow more diverse opinions. What I know it that there are still lack of solid definition of why and how we think with object since it is a cognitive experience that differ from everyone therefore I need to make it clear in the essay that I am not forgetting this important statement.