Amygdala
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In order to become lasting memories, these sensory experiences have to be consolidated by the hippocampus, influenced by the
amygdala
, which emphasizes experiences associated with strong emotions.
More example sentences with word amygdala
For example, it's been shown to stimulate neural growth in the amygdala, in the area where it controls emotions.
And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe called the
amygdala.
Now the
amygdala
is our early warning detector, our danger detector.
And what they found is that the amygdala, a part of the brain associated in part with fear and anxiety, lit up when people looked at angular objects, but not when they looked at the round ones.
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