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The sensations are then passed on in two directions—down to the amygdala, two small almond-shaped structures that lie deeper in the limbic, unconscious brain, and up to the frontal lobes, where they reach our conscious awareness.

affirme qu’il n’existe pas un soi, mais plusieurs. Notre psyché est constituée de plusieurs systèmes concurrents, chacun ayant son propre agenda. Platon propose une structure tripartite : il existe un système rationnel, réflexif, un système spirituel, ou émotionnel, et un système basique d’appétits physiques. On peut comparer cela à ce que le neuro

Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. His classical conditioning principles explain how animals can come to associate a previously neutral event, such as the ringing of a bell, with, say, the presentation of food immediately following it, so that the animal learns to salivate at the bell tone.

David Hume,

Honnold’s amygdala didn’t react to a single disturbing image. Not a blip of activity. Honnold’s secret weapon might be that his emotional reactivity is monk-like.

Because memory loss and delayed recall of traumatic experiences had never been documented in the laboratory, some cognitive scientists adamantly denied that these phenomena existed23 or that retrieved traumatic memories could be accurate.24

Emotional intensity is defined by the smoke alarm, the amygdala, and its counterweight, the watchtower, the medial prefrontal cortex. The context and meaning of an experience are determined by the system that includes the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the hippocampus.