Thoughtful feelings.

Current Biology : CB
Joseph LeDoux

Abstract

In this My Word, Joseph LeDoux describes how his four-decade career exploring how non-conscious processes involving the amygdala detect and respond to danger has contributed to the 'amygdala fear center' meme, a view he does not endorse. The conscious experience of fear, he tells us here, is not wired into the amygdala, but is instead a cognitively assembled understanding that you are in harm's way based on non-conscious memories, schemas, and mental models.

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Jul 15, 2021·Current Biology : CB·Joseph E LeDoux
Sep 23, 2020·Current Biology : CB·Joseph E LeDoux, Hakwan Lau
Dec 28, 2021·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Joseph E LeDoux

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