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- Title
Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory.
- Authors
LaBar, Kevin S.; Cabeza, Roberto
- Abstract
Emotional events often attain a privileged status in memory. Cognitive neuroscientists have begun to elucidate the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying emotional retention advantages in the human brain. The amygdala is a brain structure that directly mediates aspects of emotional learning and facilitates memory operations in other regions, including the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. Emotion–memory interactions occur at various stages of information processing, from the initial encoding and consolidation of memory traces to their long-term retrieval. Recent advances are revealing new insights into the reactivation of latent emotional associations and the recollection of personal episodes from the remote past.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS; MEMORY; BRAIN; COGNITION; INFORMATION processing
- Publication
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006, Vol 7, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
1471-003X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrn1825