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There are three bases of computational emotions thinking theory presented in our previous (Talanov & Toschev, 2014) and current article: neuroscience: (Arbib & Fellous, 2004; Berridge & Robinson, 2003; Fellous, 1999; Lovheim, 2012; Plutchik, 2001), computer science: (Breazeal, 2002; Cambria & Hussain, 2012; Cambria, Livingstone, & Hussain, 2012; Kort, Reilly & Picard, 2001; Picard, 1995; Marsella, Gratch, & Petta, 2010; Lin, Spraragen, & Zyda, 2012; Gratch & Marsella, 2005; Larue, Poirier, & Nkambou, 2012) and evolutional psychology: (Plutchik, 2001; Kelly, 2009; Tomkins, 1962, 1963, 1991, 1981).
Overall emotional process was described exhaustively in our previous article (Talanov & Toschev, 2014) and looks like following:
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Inbound stimulus is appraised non-consciously (affective appraisal)
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Neuromodulation is triggered and it actually switches the emotional state of the system. System feels emotion
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Conscious processes are triggered: stimulus cognition with stimulus deliberation, stimulus reflective thinking, stimulus cognition reflection, stimulus cognition self-reflection, stimulus cognition self-conscious reflection (cognitive appraisal)
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Parallel to conscious processes the instinctive behaviour could be triggered, it influencing the environment
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Conscious processes described above triggers conscious behaviour and in its turn it influences the environment again
The neuromodulators influence in emotional processes was described in Lovheim article (Lovheim, 2012). We used Plutchik ”wheel of emotions” (Plutchik, 2001) as base psychological model of emotions and adopted his emotional feedback loop processes to fit cognitive architecture ”model of six” of Marvin Minsky (Minsky, 2007). We developed mapping of neuromodulators impact on computational processes (Talanov & Toschev, 2014)