BS 207 Luiz Pessoa "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Importance of Attention and Awareness in Stimulating the Amygdala
The subconscious can still have an effect by stimulating and engaging the amygdala, which has implications for anxiety disorders and psychopathology. While the fast sub-cortical pathway has been emphasized, cortical processing is also extremely fast. Signals reaching the amygdala are not strongly independent of attention and awareness, as attention plays a critical role in the extent to which these signals are registered in the amygdala.
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