"Erlick Pereira" <eacp2 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes on Fri, 11 May 2001:
> Only in the last two decades has psychology focused upon
> the coordination of behavioural responses to fear.
> Prior to then, fear was considered merely a type of emotion
ATM:
The emotion of fear is specifically depicted in an AI diagram at
http://www.geocities.com/mentifex/emotion.html -- AI for robots.
> and emotions had received little attention in deference to
> cognition and MacLean's (1951) conceptualisation of a
> catch-all subcortical "limbic system". [...]
> Pavlovian fear conditioning [... See start of thread. -ATM]
> Considering human studies [ ... See start of thread. -ATM ]
> To summarise these complex neural interactions [...]
> [...] The amygdala clearly plays a crucial operational role
> at the interface of emotion and cognition, and fear coordination
> is at present its most experimentally tractable facet.
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