Question

Your textbook discusses the neural pathways responsible for instinctual fear responses that occur when you perceive a threatening stimulus. Why does this instinctual fear response take place before you have time to consciously evaluate the stimulus?

Answer 1

Thalamus to amygdala.

Step-by-step explanation:

Neural pathway is the way by which signals are transmitted in the body from one region to another region. These neurons are connected by the bundle of axons or by the single axon.

The fear response and all the other response is directly or indirectly controlled by the nervous system. The fear response may take time because the information needs to travel from the thalamus region to the amygdala region of the brain.

Thus, the answer is thalamus to amygdala.