Blog #4 - Somatic Marker Theroy


Simple, we have an amazing ability to make opinions based on emotions.

The somatic marker theory suggests that we can remember ideas, feelings, and emotions to particular events and situations that make us formulate opinions on the situation.

The way we interact with the world, stimuli refer to our senses, (sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing) these are the sensory processes that tell the brain what to think in response to an Input, of which would be a situation (eating cake, being in a car crash), then the brain is the central processor that decides for an action, the brain does this thousands of times a day. In the end, it outputs out a motor process of in this case is an active memory, so when the same memory is repeated in life it can kick out the same motor response of emotion and reaction.

By definition, we can say it is 'The link between emotions and decisions making. Damasio concludes that your choices are steered by your emotions.' - Our psychological function takes external stimuli as an input and is processed by the brain creating an emotion, making the mind recognize a feeling in response to these stimuli.

This is either a like or dislike. For example, falling off a bike: this situation will be remembered as a bad situation, we put a little marker on the situation, this may make us try to avoid it, we know it is a bad situation.


While positive and happy events like eating cake make you feel happy, your brain will simply equate cake with happiness, so this might make you carve it in the near future. The brain would want some more of that dopamine, reelected by our brain when eating cake, it makes you feel good, so you crave it. 

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