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...devil or run like crazy. It's not designed to be accurate, just fast. If you have ever gone hiking and been startled by a snake that turned out to be a stick, you can thank your amygdala. Joseph LeDoux, a neuroscientist at New York University, calls it "the hub in a wheel of fear...
...HIGH ROAD Only after the fear response is activated does the conscious mind kick into gear. Some sensory information, rather than traveling directly to the amygdala, takes a more circuitous route, stopping first at the thalamus--the processing hub for sensory cues--and then the cortex--the outer layer of brain cells. The cortex analyzes the raw data streaming in through the senses and decides whether they require a fear response. If they do, the cortex signals the amygdala, and the body stays on alert...
Summers dreams of Boston as a hub for biomedical science research (see related story, page C-10), and the enormous space needs of the biological sciences come together around this scenario...
Both the New York- and Princeton-bound say proximity to the city that is a cultural mecca, worldwide financial center and governmental hub was a major factor in their decisions to leave Cambridge...
...pair of buildings planned has been designed as a hub for the government department and a dozen related centers. And, as debate has gone on, the government and economics departments are forced to share Littauer, a building that either one could easily grow large enough to fill...