Publications [#252448] of Kevin S. LaBar

Journal Articles

1. LaBar, KS; Cabeza, R (2006). Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory.. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 7(1), 54-64. [16371950], [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/04/25)

   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.