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The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

The Quanta Podcast

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The Amigdula, the Fear Centre of the Brain

Joseph lode is a neuro scientist at n y u, known for his pioneering work on the amigdula that's often referred to as the fear centre of the brain. Ledo has spent the decade since then, emphasizing that the amidla isn't involved in generating fear at all. He says, fear is a cognitive interpretation of a situation, a subjective experience up in memory and other processes. The psychological phenomena that some people experience as fear may be experienced as something very different by others.

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