Andrew Huberman· PhD
the amydala is just responding to stimuli it's sending up bottom up signals you know it's a caricature of of bottom up and top down processing let's give an example that I'm I'm walking down the street and all of a sudden I hear like a really ferocious dog barking at me all going crazy and then I get super scared and then I realize okay there's a fence so the amydala detect you know heard the dog barking he there's a dog barking and you know I'm freaking out then my prefrontal cortex realizes there the F it looks very sturdy this fence looks stable and then I'm relaxing and I'm resuming my walking normally you know I think that's sort of the dance that our brain is doing when we have top down and bottom up uh information that we're trying to stay focused