http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/15/the-inchoate-science-of-consciousness/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/15/the-inchoate-science-of-consciousness/#comment-8253 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:48:37 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/09/15/the-inchoate-science-of-consciousness/#comment-8253 If I’m reading Antonio Damasio’s “Feeling of What Happens” correctly, the VTA is associated with emotion, so presumably the mice with this area reactivated would tend to show more fear and caution and explore more thoroughly before advancing rather than moving ahead rapidly.
Doesn’t mean they are “planning” anything, though.

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