Carl Schoonover | Slideshow

Portraits of the Mind


Portraits of the Mind: Slideshow: Slide 6

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Malcolm Young, Jack Scannell, Gully Burns and Colin Blakemore (1994)

A summary of the known connections between the amygdala, a structure deep inside the brain that processes emotions, and the different areas of the cerebral cortex — many of which are thought to be involved in what are thought of as ‘rational’ features of the mind. The multitude of connections between these areas argues for a view in which thought and emotion are less dissociable from each other than is commonly believed.

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