On 9 May 1996, Hesketh J Christian wrote:
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> Steve, as I was reading your post, I thought of a plausible theory
> concerning the role of the amygdala in emotional conditioning. First,
> let's broaden the role of the amygdala beyond fear and use the blanket
> term 'emotion'.
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> When one does then
> come across the various types of stimuli involved in the emotional event,
> perhaps we see a strengthening between the amygdala's representation of
> the particular emotion with each of the various components of the
> memory and therefore the stimuli, be it smell, sight, sound etc . . . can
> influence the emotional response. Just a thought . . .
>> J. Christian Hesketh - Queen's University
Continuing on with the idea that basic carrier wave function exist for
specific task the amygdala may be the osscillator that send/read/write
messages to the rest of the brain. Ron Blue
