title: Memory reconsolidation keeps track of emotional changes, but what will explain the actual "processing"?
abstract: We question memory reconsolidation and emotional arousal as sufficient determinants of therapeutic change. Generating new feelings and meanings must be contrasted with activating and stabilizing the evolving memories that reflect those novel experiences. Some therapeutic changes are not attributable to a memory model alone. "Emotional processing" is also needed and is often an undeclared form of complex executive problem solving.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of Windsor,Windsor,Ontario N9B 3P4,Canada.apl@uwindsor.cahttp://www1.uwindsor.ca/people/apl/
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pascual-Leone
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,York University,Toronto,Ontario M3J 1P3,Canada.juanpl@yorku.cahttp://tcolab.blog.yorku.ca/
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pascual-Leone
mesh_terms: D001143:Arousal; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory