The effect of retrieval focus and emotional valence on the medial temporal lobe activity during autobiographical recollection

Laboratory-based episodic memory studies, using micro-events (pictures/words), point a role of the amygdala (AMY), an emotion-based region, in the encoding and retrieval of emotionally-valenced memories. However, autobiographical memory (AM) studies, using real-life personal events, do not conclusiv...

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Main Authors: Ekaterina eDenkova, Sanda eDolcos, Florin eDolcos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00109/full