Emotional Learning: Fear and loathing in the amygdala

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  • Gregory A. Clark
چکیده

The amygdala in the brain plays a critical role in learning emotional components of experience, such as conditioned fear; these processes in turn affect many other aspects of memory and cognition.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Current Biology

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995