Dual Highways for Emotions Reach the Orbitofrontal Cortex

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In everyday life, emotional scenes captivate us, and we remember them more readily than ordinary scenes and events. Pathways that convey sensory signals reach neurons in the thalamus, which then convey the signals to the cerebral cortex, the brain’s outer rim. But the external world and its emotional import are intertwined in our experience. How does information about our inner world reach the cortex as we become aware of our emotions — happiness, sadness, fear?

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