1. awareness or speed of processing in the amyg

Question 1

amyg awareness - speed arguement

Answer 1

speed amyg responds more important than awareness:

some may be aware and respond due to rapid processing of stimuli in amyg following awareness

OR heightened amyg response due to rapid processing may facilitate awareness because amyg communicates info to the cortex

Question 2

vuillemier exp 2

method

Answer 2

attend to faces (FFG response) or houses (parahippocampal gyrus PHG)

Question 3

portois

Answer 3

Electrodes in amyg in epileptic patients undergoing neurosurgery
both taskrelevant+irrelevant fearful faces elicited an early differential response compared to neutral faces in the lateral amygdala
not until later that task relevant/irrelevant stimuli dissociated in activation

Question 4

pessoa and adolphs

problem with amyg focus in rapid processing

Answer 4

not taking into account that there are other areas which show activation in relation to latencies of stimuli arouns 70-80ms
ie OFC, L.PFC
- cant rule out that there exists differential networks thaat may have an influence/play a role

Question 5

vuillemier et al exp 2

results

Answer 5

strong attentional modulation in the demanding matching task for lines when unattending - unlikely to be an inadvertent shift in attention

response to fear faces in amyg not sig modulated by attention - ACTIVATE REGARDLESS OF ATTENTION TO FEAR FACES

left amyg and right ffg involved in fear face processing independent of spatial attention
-L.ffg elicit response to faces only when attend, amyg not attentionally modulated and not sig altered activity to fear>neutral