Sublime

Frontal areas like the prefrontal cortex regulate the ability to organize, plan, and handle change. Another area of brain machinery important for control of behavior that we introduced in Chapter 2, a forward region called the anterior cingulate cortex, may be particularly relevant for determining what the brain engages in at a given moment.

misinformation effect.

Episodic memory:

Les systèmes qui gèrent les émotions négatives sont intimement liés aux rythmes circadiens.

If the amygdala is the smoke detector in the brain, think of the frontal lobes—and specifically the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC),12 located directly above our eyes—as the watchtower, offering a view of the scene from on high.

Creating a useful, accurate picture of something complex and abstract is very difficult. And there is nothing more complex and abstract than the human mind.

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

directly to our hippocampus, our amygdala (an emotion-processing center), and our olfactory cortex (which not only deals with smells but is involved in complex memory, learning, and decision-making tasks), triggering a host of thoughts, feelings, and recollections—yet more likely than not, we note neither smell nor memory.