Assertion: amygdala's role | /r/HasProperty | important
Facets:
value: for social interaction
type: PURPOSE
value: for communication
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Certain structures of the limbic system are involved in memory, as well: two large limbic system structures, the amygdala and the hippocampus, play important roles in memory.
text: The amygdala plays a central role in emotion recognition, which is essential for social interaction and communication .
text: It has often been suggested that the amygdala might play an important role in hierarchical behavior (pecking order) in vertebrates.
text: Amygdala is an almond-like structure present in the brain and is known to play an important role in human emotion, especially the fear and anxiety, and its’ respective resulting behavior.
text: Amygdala is well known to play an important role in human emotions, especially fear and anxiety and its respective resulting behavior.
text: The amygdala also has an important role in the automatic and endocrine responses associated with emotional states (2).
text: The amygdala also attaches emotional content to our memories, and so plays an important role in determining how robustly those memories are stored.
text: Although the amygdala appears to play an important role in attaching emotional significant to memories, does not appear to be related to development of other memory functions
text: The amygdala has been shown to interact with reward areas of the brain like the ventral striatum, and it seems to play an important role in forming memories associated with drug use.
text: Besides conditioned fear responses, the amygdala plays an essential role in context-based acquisition of fear responses, PTSD, social anxiety and preparing the organism to react upon a threat (Phillips and LeDoux, 1992; Killgore and Yurgelun-Todd, 2005; Alvarez et al., 2008; Morey et al., 2012; O’Doherty et al., 2017; Engelen et al., 2018).