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 experience as the awareness of bodily sensations associated

 with emotion. Cannon, on the other hand, views conscious

 awareness of emotion as arising from neurological activation

 which may be accompanied by visceral and muscular changes.

 Papez, MacLean, and LeDoux support this view. Appraisal

 theorists emphasize the importance of cognition combined

 with physiological arousal in the awareness of emotion.

 Discrete emotion theories view the experience of categorical

 emotions which corresponded to specific facial expressions.

 Lastly, most dimensional theorists emphasize the experience

 of emotion based on two or three polar emotional dimensions,

 whereas Lang views emotional experience as an epiphenomenon

 of overt behavior, physiological activity, and verbal

 report.

 For purposes of the present study, emotional experience

is defined as a psychological phenomenon or subjective

experience which can be measured indirectly through

physiological measures, verbal report, and overt behaviors

(e.g., facial muscle responses). Because emotional

experience is not directly observable, problems are inherent

in any definition of and attempt to measure it. In terms of

the present definition of emotional experience, it is

unclear what the impact of decreased responding in any of

the three response systems means in terms of emotional

experience. For instance, if an individual reports

experiencing anxiety, but displays no physiological or overt