LeDoux's Work on the Brain Areas Involved in Emotional Processes

Multiple Choice

LeDoux's work on the brain areas involved in emotional processes revealed that there is an independent neural path taking sensory information through the thalamus to a specific connection, which could account for why we are sometimes able to respond behaviourally to environmental stimuli before we have the chance to make a cognitive appraisal of these stimuli. This connection from the thalamus runs to the ____________.

A) cortex
B) amygdala
C) hypothalamus
D) hippocampus