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The scale of the learning is interesting in itself. From a few months, to years old, to all the way to preteens, emotions are constantly being reevaluated and d
by BenMorganIO 8y ago
The scale of the learning is interesting in itself. From a few months, to years old, to all the way to preteens, emotions are constantly being reevaluated and developing new ones as well.
- Bartweiss 8y agoIs there any decent model of what actually happens when children develop theory of mind? Along with having a suite of emotions and recognizing cues in others, it's pretty obviously a required piece of learning to read emotion for humans. Below a certain age, it's literally impossible to generate ideas like "the cat doesn't like that", since there's no space between "I like that" and "that is likable". But I don't think I've ever seen somebody describe what kind of structural or chemical changes are correlated with e.g. passing the mirror test.
- BenMorganIO 8y agoFrom what I remember, when children are born, they're born with a very underdeveloped brain. The prefrontal cortex to I believe isn't present but I could be wrong, otherwise it's very small. The self conscious emotions, pride, shame, guilt, envy, remorse, embarrassment, hubris, and many more come from the prefrontal cortex. As it develops over a very long period of time, so do the emotions. I remember that embarrassment doesn't typically develop until you're approximately 7-years-old.
- BenMorganIO 8y agoI don't remember many models besides: here's a brain, here's how it developed, and here's what is and isn't able to get done given approximate ages.