Phillip Bard contributed to the theory with his work on animals. Bard found that sensory, motor, and physiological information all had to pass through the diencephalon (particularly the thalamus), before being subjected to any further processing. Therefore, Cannon also argued that it was not anatomically possible for sensory events to trigger a physiological response prior to triggering conscious awareness and emotional stimuli had to trigger both physiological and experiential aspects of emotion simultaneously. COUNT 4
QSN1 What is the thalamus a part of? ANS1 the diencephalon QSN2 Who argued that an emotional stimulus triggered experiential and physiological responses to emotions at the same time? ANS2 Cannon QSN3 What creatures did Bard experiment on? ANS3 animals QSN4 Along with sensory and motor information, what information had to pass through the diencephalon before being processed? ANS4 physiological