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The Neuroscience of Compassion and Its Evolutionary Origins. From a neuroscience point of view, healthy compassion seems to involve two components in a complex interplay – an arousal component ...
Seen from this perspective, we eat to avoid the surprise of extreme hunger, and we seek shelter to avoid the surprise of being cold. How much does a ‘theory of everything’ actually explain? So the ...
Cognitive architectures are grounded in multiple scientific fields with distinct perspectives. Neuroscience focuses on the organization of the human brain, cognitive psychology on human behavior in ...
Our Neuroscience Major Curriculum. At DePauw, the Psychology major requires a minimum of 11.5 courses, which includes key background in science and statistics, advanced neuroscience courses, and at ...
From a neuroscience perspective, it has been proven that when we love, the brain releases substances like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin, which reinforce attachment, trust, ...