Animalistic cognition: fear (based on the english language source)

Chezybaeva Natalya

The interest of Russian and foreign scientists lies in the field of cognitive science that opens up new perspectives in the study of cognitive processes of brain functioning as well as mechanisms of control of humans and animals’ behaviour. Particular attention is paid to the specifics of extra-linguistic reality understanding. This article reveals the development of human knowledge about oneself through comparison, search for similarities with the realities of the natural world. The focus is the associative relationship of the emotion of fear and its embodiment in animalistic images.

Keywords:cognition, animality, emotions, fear.