Thoughtful feelings

Joseph E. LeDoux

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.012

Thoughtful feelings

Joseph E. LeDoux

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In this My Word, Joseph LeDoux describes how his four-decade career exploring how non-conscious processes involving the amygdala detect and respond to danger has contributed to the ‘amygdala fear center’ meme, a view he does not endorse. The conscious experience of fear, he tells us here, is not wired into the amygdala, but is instead a cognitively assembled understanding that you are in harm's way based on non-conscious memories, schemas, and mental models.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R619-R623
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	30
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.012
State	Published - Jun 8 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuroscience(all)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)

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