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BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Thalamus, Amygdala, and Emotional Cognitive Brain

The standard hypothesis posits a fast, sub-cortical pathway allowing visual inputs to convey threat-related information to the amygdala very quickly. However, recent evidence challenges this hypothesis, demonstrating that the thalamus is not just a simple relay. A new model, the multiple waves model, proposes a different approach to effective visual perception, suggesting that the thalamus plays a more complex role in processing visual inputs.

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