c) The amygdala is involved in autonomic responses associated with fear and hormonal secretions.
a) Scientific studies have led to the discovery of the location of its neurons that are responsible for fear conditioning.
e) Fear conditioning is an associative learning process by which we learn through repeated experiences to fear something.
b) For example, when we hear an unpleasant sound, the amygdala heightens our perception of the sound.
d) This heightened perception is deemed distressing and memories are formed associating the sound with unpleasantness.
