With the thought of video games in mind, the neuroscientists at the University of Geneva created a video game to evoke emotions by putting volunteers "in situations they'll have to evaluate so they can advance and win rewards," as Dr. On the other hand, video games can evoke emotions and target different areas of the brain at one time, making them a viable candidate for experimentation with volunteers. "The problem is, these regions overlap for different emotions, so they're not specific," as one area of the brain, says Joana Leitão, a post-doctoral neuroscience fellow at the university. ![]() Previously, theories "have attempted to model the emergence of an emotion, although none has so far been proven experimentally." Moreover, experiments relating to emotions were more "targeted," such as showing a volunteer an image or video to try and extract emotion from a specific area of the brain. They found this out by analyzing volunteers' "feelings, expressions, and physiological responses" while playing a video game designed for arousing different emotions depending on the game's progress.Īs the University of Geneva press release explains, "Emotions are complex phenomena that influence our minds, bodies, and behavior." This complexity makes emotions challenging to understand and study. A research team at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, found that emotions result from the synchronization of several neural systems throughout the brain. ![]() While anyone could say a good movie, book, or video game made them feel emotional, scientists did not understand why until now.
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