The impostor syndrome

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To better tell you about this incredible story, I shall first give you a brief smattering on how what we see through our eyes is then processed inside of our brain. When an image (rays of light) hits our retina, a visual signal is converted into an electrical signal and sent inside of our brain. The mental elaboration of an image is an extremely complex mechanism, and it is just crazy to think how fast and efficient this process is and how we do not consciously realize what happened in between the visual signal and its final output. In very simple words: visual data are sent to a cerebral structure, the fusiform gyrus in which objects, faces and places are subject to a primary evaluation. At this hub, the acquired visual data are subdivided through 4 main paths: the one which interests us most is the way number 3 that gets to the Amygdala.