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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00109/full |