... demonstrated to science and the world that James and Cannon were both correct on their theories. According to James theory of emotion humans feel emotions through pyshical action, meaning that the body tells the brain how to feel about an emotion. Hames argues that the body must act before the brain can resigester any emotion. In fear the heart pounds, muscles tense, and breath shortens, and for James the body first displays the fear pyschically far before the brain can register the emotion. Once the body has offically taken form of the emotion it is then transmitted to the brain where it is categorized as a spesific emotion. The body sends signals to the brain in form of actions through visceral signaling, therefore The brain only absorbs what the body gives it. But James did not think of emotions as feelings but as sensory perceptions. Fear would be ...

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