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The amygdala processes threat-relevant stimuli via a fast subcortical pathway, enabling automatic evaluative responses within approximately 300 milliseconds before conscious cortical processing and identification can complete.
The amygdala evaluates emotional significance of stimuli before conscious awareness, and humans systematically use these pre-conscious emotional evaluations as heuristic substitutes for complex cognitive judgments, producing systematic distortions in probability and severity assessments.