Emotions and Cognition

Introduction

For a long time, people have debated the concept of intellect and emotional interplay. Philosophers and psychologists have engaged in extensive debate over various and opposed presentations on these two topics. Some suggested that the two parts occur differently in a person’s physiology, while others disagreed. After reading many of the scholars’ arguments, I came to the conclusion that emotions and cognition are so intertwined that they affect each other in so many ways that a person cannot operate properly without the involvement of the two. The concept of thinking, making decisions, recognizing and discriminating, and solving issues is surrounded by the concept of human psychology, which is dependent on cognition and affection by emotions (In Perron, 2016).

The interplay of emotions and cognition

Therefore reviewing this context of events, it is not possible to have cognition without emotion. The two are controlled and processed by the same brain simultaneously. Emotions arouse the perception critiques that lead to cognition by human beings. Therefore the way human beings perceive situations and weigh them is affected by the accompanying emotions. For instance, negative perception of events is as a result of the emotions that come alongside it. Therefore for cognition to be employed, emotions have to dictate what a perception implies. The interplay of the amygdalae sections of the brain seems to suggest that both cognition and emotions take the same route in the human being’s brain (In LePore, 2013). Therefore for a person to think critically and decide, emotions have to apply and determine o what extent the person trusts the decisions he or she is about to make. That is to point out that cognition is depended on the way emotions dictate to the brain. Moreover, finding solutions has to be perceived and sieved through emotional contemplations to be viewed as valid and reliable. In that context, therefore, the cognition aspect of the brain is greatly controlled by the emotions that are evoked during interpretation and evaluation of situations. This is to point out that cognition is dependent on the emotional outcome of event and situation evaluation (Pessoa, 2013).

Conclusion

In conclusion, it is merely impossible to have cognition without emotion involvement since they are networked to make proper and critical reasoning.

References

Pessoa, L. (2013). The cognitive-emotional brain: From interactions to integration.

In LePore, E. (2013). A companion to Donald Davidson.

In Perron, B., & In Schröter, F. (2016). Video games and the mind: Essays on cognition, affect and emotion.