Affective regions of the brain often act as the teacher, with the prefrontal cortex as the student, contradicting the view of the prefrontal cortex taming emotions.

“the affective regions are often the teacher and the prefontal is the student and that makes sense if you think about how humans are goal directed think about how a kid learns to walk they don't do that for theoretical reasons they don't just like look at people walking and be like I want to learn how to do that right it's I have four kids it's usually because there's a toy at the other side of the room that they really really want and that I don't want them to have and the only way for them to go get it because I won't get it for them is for them to learn how to walk so the the motor learning is the effect of the desire in the goal Pursuit and what what Carol argued is that feder's had is totally wrong it's not that the prefrontal charioteer is taming the emotional it's really that the the”