Your body is a map of your emotions People feel anger in their upper torso. They feel drunkenness in their legs. What does the cartography of feelings explain about human consciousness?

In all, they gathered information on a total of 13 different emotions — six 'basic' ones (anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness and surprise) and seven 'complex' ones (anxiety, love, depression, ...

It’s all part of the fascinating new Body Atlas, produced from research conducted by Finnish scientists, which shows a heat map of where in our bodies we can expect different emotions to ...

Emotions are as much physical as they are mental, and it appears that people from a wide range of cultures feel their emotions in the same places on their bodies. This map shows where those places ...

How emotions are mapped in the body Date: December 31, 2013 Source: Aalto University Summary: Researchers found that the most common emotions trigger strong bodily sensations, and the bodily maps ...

Recently, researchers from Finland created colorful images that map how the engagement of specific body areas corresponds to 14 different emotions.

They suggest that in the future we could try measuring whole-body prefusion, recording changes in blood flow in subjects when they feel particular emotions.

Self-reported body maps showing areas where subjects felt sensations increased (warm colors) or decreased (cool colors) for a given emotion. (Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences ...

The study published in PNAS reveals that emotions create identifiable maps of bodily sensations, consistent across different cultures and races. Using a novel method named "embody," researchers ...

The authors of the study note most emotions only exert a minor physiological change in the body The maps reinforce expectations of human emotional responses to outside stimuli.

A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies.

Seen in this context, the similarities in the body maps of anger and happiness make sense, according to the study. Representations of both emotions show increased activity in the arms and to a ...