Emerging Directions in Emotional Episodic Memory
- Building upon the existing literature on emotional memory, the present review examines emerging evidence from brain imaging investigations regarding four research directions: (1) Social Emotional Memory, (2) The Role of Emotion Regulation in the Impact of Emotion on Memory, (3) The Impact of Emotion on Associative or Relational Memory, and (4) The Role of Individual Differences in Emotional Memory. Across these four domains, available evidence demonstrates that emotion-and memory-related medial temporal lobe brain regions (amygdala and hippocampus, respectively), together with prefrontal cortical regions, play a pivotal role during both encoding and retrieval of emotional episodic memories. This evidence sheds light on the neural mechanisms of emotional memories in healthy functioning, and has important implications for understanding clinical conditions that are associated with negative affective biases in encoding and retrieving emotional memories.
Author details: | Florin Dolcos, Yuta Katsumi, Mathias WeymarORCiDGND, Matthew Moore, Takashi Tsukiura, Sanda Dolcos |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01867 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29255432 |
Title of parent work (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
Place of publishing: | Lausanne |
Publication type: | Review |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2017 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2020/04/20 |
Tag: | PTSD; anxiety; associative memory; depression; emotion control; emotion-cognition interactions; individual differences (personality, sex, age); social cognition |
Volume: | 8 |
Number of pages: | 25 |
First page: | R1277 |
Last Page: | R1280 |
Funding institution: | Helen Corley Petit Scholarship in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University of Illinois; Emanuel Donchin Professorial Scholarship in Psychology from University of Illinois; German Research Foundation (DFG) [WE 4801/3-1]; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI) [17H05947] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |