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ArticleTitle	Feeling: Foundation of the cognitive process
Language	J
AuthorList	Atsushi Yamadori
Affiliation	Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Disability Medicine Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 18 (1), 41-48, 2002
Received
Accepted
Abstract	Neuropsychological nature of feeling was discussed. Feeling is the subjective aspect of emotion, which is the sum of observable behavioral change. Detectable emotional change is always accompanied by concurrent feeling. On the other hand, feeling can be experienced without concurrent emotional change. Anger and happiness are the examples of the former, while feeling of belonging of experience to the self, and feeling of comprehension is the example of the latter. Feeling is diffuse and ubiquitous without form. Images or percepts take shape on the basis of feeling. Neuroanatomical basis of feeling is complex and widespread, including orbitofrontal-striatum-thalamic circuit, frontal-amygdala-thalamic circuit, all the networks including the hypothalamus, Papez circuit and so on. Three clinical cases of emotional disorders with lesions in these areas were reported, and the relationship between feeling and cognitive processes was discussed.
Keywords	feeling, emotion, cognition, limbic system, frontal lobe