Emotional intelligence and the brain
The human brain is the control centre for our entire nervous system. It continuously receives signals from the body’s primary sensory inputs such as sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. These inputs get translated via the neocortex into signals or thoughts.
Although many of the processes that keep our bodies functioning are not ‘thoughts’ as such, they are a combination of electrical and chemical impulses delivered via our central nervous and limbic (emotional) systems which provide the stimulus to various muscle groups throughout our bodies.
The cerebrum is the newest frontal part of our brain, in evolutionary terms, and happens to be the most significant part of our modern-day intellectual brain, because ...
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