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Fear, learning, and the amygdala: a personal reflection in honor of Joseph LeDoux

Kevin S LaBar1

  • 1Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, 308 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0999, United States.

Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
|October 10, 2024
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Keywords:
amygdalaemotional memoryfear conditioningneuroscience education

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