Where Fear Lives.
With the aid of modern technology and functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers can now observe what happens in the brain as humans experience and learn fear. In an interview, Elizabeth Phelps, director of the Phelps Lab at New York University's Psychology Department, discusses her researc...
| Publicado en: | Psychology Today Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 74 - 75 |
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| Formato: | Interview |
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Sussex Publishers Inc.
September/October 2002
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| Sumario: | With the aid of modern technology and functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers can now observe what happens in the brain as humans experience and learn fear. In an interview, Elizabeth Phelps, director of the Phelps Lab at New York University's Psychology Department, discusses her research into the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory in the amygdala and the way it is affected by emotion. |
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