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Limbic System
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Amygdala
The amygdala consists of several nuclei masses, principally the basolateral complex, the central nucleus/), and the cortical nucleus/). It serves as a core hub for salience detection, particularly in relation to fear conditioning and threat assessment. It is also responsible for assigning [emotional valence](/entries/emotional-valen… -
Predictive Coding
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Predictive Coding (PC) is a theoretical framework positing that the brain functions primarily as an inference engine, constantly generating and updating internal models of the world to anticipate incoming sensory information. Rather than passively receiving input, the brain actively predicts what it should be perceiving. Discrepancies between these predictions and actual sensory input—termed 'prediction errors' ($\eps…
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Theodor Meynert
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Theorists such as Carl Wernicke and Sigmund Freud were both influenced by, and eventually reacted against, Meynert's anatomical materialism. Wernicke absorbed Meynert's dedication to structural localization but redirected the focus dorsally to the white matter pathways connecting various cortical centers. [Freud](/entr…