Persistence of emotion in the process of inoculation: experiencing post-attack threat, fear, anger, happiness, sadness, and surprise

Ivanov, Bobi; Hester, Erin B.; Martin, Joe C.; Silberman, Will; Slone, Amanda; Goatley-Soan, Sean; Geegan, Sarah; Parker, Kimberly A.; Herrington, Taban; Riker, Seth; Anderson, August

doi:10.1080/01463373.2020.1850492

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“…Consider how fear can last for many minutes after being triggered by an odd sound occurring in an unfamiliar place. The persistence of affective states long after the stimulus that instigates them is demonstrable in humans ( Heller et al, 2015 ; Ivanov et al, 2020 ) and even in the fruit fly ( Anderson, 2022 ).…”

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From emotional signals to symbols

Griebel,

Oller

2024

Front. Psychol.

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The quest for the origins of language is a diverse enterprise, where research from a variety of disciplines brings area-specific ideas and area-specific terminology to bear. This variety often results in misunderstandings and misconceptions about communication in various species. In the present paper, we argue for focus on emotional systems as the primary motivators for social signals in animals in general. This focus can help resolve discrepancies of interpretation among different areas of inquiry and can illuminate distinctions among different social signals as well as their phylogenetic origins in animals and especially in humans. We advocate, following Jaak Panksepp, a view wherein the Seeking System, the endogenous tendency to search and explore, is the most fundamental emotional motivation. The Seeking System forms the basis for flexible, voluntary, and exploratory control of motor systems and makes much of learning possible. The relative lack of vocal learning and expression in nonhuman primates contrasted with extensive vocal learning and expression in humans began, we propose, with the evolution in ancient hominins of a necessary foundation for the many subsequent capabilities required for language. That foundation was, according to the reasoning, naturally selected in the form of neurological connections between the Seeking System and mechanisms of glottal/phonatory control. The new connections allowed ancient hominins to develop flexible, endogenous vocal fitness signals produced at very high rates and including large numbers of discrete syllables, recombinable to form syllable combinations with many prosodic variations. The increasing sociality of hominins supported evolution of massive expansion in the utilization of these flexible vocal forms to allow development of words and sentences.

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confidence: 99%