Publications [#252448] of Kevin S. LaBar

Journal Articles

1. LaBar, KS; Cabeza, R, Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory., Nature reviews. Neuroscience, vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 2006), pp. 54-64, ISSN 1471-003X [16371950], [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/15)

   Abstract:
   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.