title: Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory.
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.
authors.affiliation: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. klabar@duke.edu
authors.forename: Kevin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: LaBar
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cabeza
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009488:Neurosciences