The Emotional Brain, Fear, and the Amygdala
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Summary
Research on the role of the amygdala in fear conditioning, a behavioral procedure used to couple meaningless environmental stimuli to emotional (defense) response networks, concludes that the amygdala plays critical role in linking external stimuli to defense responses.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2003-10-01
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- 1,838
- References
- 137
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- Open access
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Keywords
Amygdala, Fear conditioning, Psychology, Classical conditioning, Neuroscience
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