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A PLOS computational model links the amygdala to emotion-guided attention and suppression of irrelevant signals, but does not by itself establish the claim's broad causal statement about bad-news focus. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The Emotional Gatekeeper: A Computational Model of Attentional Selection and Suppression through the Pathway from the Amygdala to the Inhibitory Thalamic Reticular Nucleus · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:84932c42b95477caa4e90a871c756cde54854deb4675a0972981fc0d2b0159d6

Our Emotional Gatekeeper model demonstrates how this circuit enables focused top-down, and flexible bottom-up, allocation of attention. ... The model indicates that the amygdala-TRN pathway can mediate selection of emotionally salient stimuli and block or weaken transmission of non-salient or irrelevant signals to cortex.