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.
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Kevin, S. L., & Roberto, C. (2006). Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 7(1), 54. Retrieved from http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=996003841&Fmt=7&clientId=46781&RQT=309&VName=PQD
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