Frontal and temporal lobe contributions to emotional enhancement of memory in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Emotional events gain special priority in how they are remembered, with emotionally arousing events typically recalled more vividly and with greater confidence than non-emotional events. In dementia, memory and emotion processing are affected to varying degrees, however, whether emotional enhancemen...

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Main Authors: Fiona eKumfor, Muireann eIrish, John R. Hodges, Olivier ePiguet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00225/full