Question

What areas of the brain would be involved if someone: a) heard and attended to a loud sound, b) felt afraid, c) started to run away, d) told someone about it, e) and later on, remembered never to go to that place again.

Answer 1

a) heard and attended to a loud sound.

• The brain part involved in hearing and attending to loud sound is Auditory cortex. It is situated in the temperol lobes of brain. This part interpret the sounds.

b) felt afraid, c) started to run away.

• Amygdala is responsible for the emotion of fear and the response of running away. The Amygdala is responsible for fight or flight mechanism in our brain.

d) told someone about it, e) and later on, remembered never to go to that place.

• Hippocampus is involved in telling someone about the event, and remembering it as as episode to never go to that place again.

Thus the brain parts involved are

Auditory cortex-->Amygdala -->Hippocampus