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The review supports an amygdala-centered role in prioritizing threat-related information and attention, including some novel or uncertain threats; it does not establish that all humans have a general bad-news bias or that unfamiliar things are uniformly treated as dangerous. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 12291

Source: The neurobiology of dispositional negativity and attentional biases to threat · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:062222e124db2e5c2a339c86761a7c2ecac944aa95feb37a9974a153e7a23479

Imaging and lesion studies demonstrate that the amygdala plays a key role in selecting and prioritizing the processing of threat-related cues. ... The amygdala plays a key role in enhancing attention to threat-relevant information. ... Threat-related cues ... strongly influence both feature selection and the depth of processing.