Joseph LeDoux's Work on the Brain Areas Involved in Emotional

question 117

Multiple Choice

Joseph LeDoux's work on the brain areas involved in emotional processes has revealed that there is an independent neural path taking sensory information through the thalamus to the ______________. This specific connection could account for why we are sometimes able to respond behaviourally to environmental stimuli before we have the chance to make a cognitive appraisal of these stimuli.

• A)cortex
• B)amygdala
• C)hypothalamus
• D)hippocampus

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Definitions:

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