Mirna is walking home from school and decides to take a shortcut across a small park. As she is walking, a large dog comes running towards her, barking loudly. Mirna is terrified and feels her heart beating hard in her chest and her breathing becomes more erratic. The dog's owner comes over quickly and takes the dog away. Luckily, Mirna is not injured. She then goes home and tells the story to her roommate.
-If Mirna was in an fMRI machine while she was telling the story with the dog incident to her roommate,which of the following brain areas would show the biggest activation

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The hippocampus is involved in memory formation and retrieval, so it would be highly active as Mirna recalls and narrates the incident to her roommate.

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