Amygdala

• Location

  • Temporal Lobe, near hippocampus
• Type of LTM

  • Explicit, Classical Conditioned + Implicit
• Role

  • storage of memory, fight, flight or freeze
  • stress hormones
  • linked to survival
  • responsible for encoding implicit memories and emotions
• Damage

  • not being able to fear new objects due to encoding
  • innate fear to unconditioned stimuli
  • not be able to properly consolidate new emotional experiences into LTM