Bitking
August 23, 2018, 12:50pm
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I have not been able to locate the exact mechanism/neural pathway that feeds images to the amygdala (and more importantly - parses) but it does seem to be aware of shapes, and to a lesser degree places, to activate emotional responses.
in general, this post has contributing amygdala content:
I get this from passing references in many texts. When people talk about the amygdala they seem to imply that you have to be running for your life in abject fear or be screaming angry to be considered an emotional memory. What is missed is subtle shading of all memory consolidation - when something is just a little good or a little bad. As the semantic categories are formed the coloring allows you to choose between different choices as the relative “goodness” or “badness” of things is part of t…
and in particular this link speaks to my point:
Over the past two decades, evidence has accumulated that the human amygdala exerts some of its functions also when the observer is not aware of the content, or even presence, of the triggering emotional stimulus. Nevertheless, there is as of yet no...
This link ties the amygdala to the hippocampus and hopefully - brings this post more in alignment to this thread:https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2559/1f5d9fde558ce5cd7f49607ef87e48e6287f.pdf
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