Emotional events often attain a privileged status in memory. Cognitive neuroscientists have
begun to elucidate the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying emotional retention …

Echoplanar functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used in normal human
subjects to investigate the role of the amygdala in conditioned fear acquisition and extinction. A …

Classical fear conditioning was used in the present study as a model for investigating
emotional learning and memory in human subjects with lesions to the medial temporal lobe. …

Emotional events are remembered better than neutral events possibly because the
amygdala enhances the function of medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory system (modulation …

Functional MRI was used to examine cerebral activations in 12 subjects while they performed
a spatial attention task. This study applied more stringent behavioural and cognitive …

College students generated autobiographical memories from distinct emotional categories
that varied in valence (positive vs. negative) and intensity (high vs. low). They then rated …

The memory-enhancing effect of emotion can be powerful and long-lasting. Most studies
investigating the neural bases of this phenomenon have focused on encoding and early …

Frontal and posterior parietal activations have been reported in numerous studies of working
memory and visuospatial attention. To directly compare the brain regions engaged by …

The prefrontal cortex has been implicated in a variety of attentional, executive, and mnemonic
mental operations, yet its functional organization is still highly debated. The present study …

Although the influence of emotional arousal on declarative memory has been documented
behaviorally, the mechanisms underlying arousal-memory interactions and their …