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... questionable, however, the limbic system will still be referred to as a system in the human brain to create consistency and understanding. Then, the limbic system's different structures will be focused upon to reveal that not all of these structures are involved in emotion or motivation and that the ones involved are not independent of other systems in the human brain. These arguments will lead to the conclusion that the limbic system is not solely responsible for human motivation and emotion in the human brain. William James was the first to question emotion. His paper in 1884 sparked further research from Walter Cannon, Singer and Schacter, Robert Zajonc, and many others. Through all of these studies, the arguments were focused primarily on what defines an emotion. For example, it was often argued whether people determine their emotion based upon their physiological responses from a stimuli or whether the perception of a ...