BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
The Multiple Waves Model of the Amygdala
When the amygdala is engaged by emotional stimuli, it actually enhances visual processing and that enhanced visual processing allows it to sort of survive so that it's not missed. So it actually, the amygdala really helps in guiding the brain, the visual system in determining what is of relevance. Well, I know we've only scratched the surface here, but I hope we've given people sort of an idea of how fascinating this work is; there's much more to it than they might have imagined.
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