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2 wrz 2020 · The neuroscientific study of emotional memory has advanced considerably since researchers first detailed a critical role for the amygdala in enhancing memory consolidation for arousing experiences. It is now known that the influence of emotion on memory is both a more selective and multifaceted process than initially thought.
1 sty 2006 · Philosophers and psychologists have long theorized about how emotion enhances or disrupts memory. Francis Bacon called strong emotion one of the six “lesser forms of aids to the memory” 1...
Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving.
1 wrz 2001 · A highly adaptive aspect of human memory is the enhancement of explicit, consciously accessible memory for emotional stimuli. Recent findings from neuroimaging, neuropsychological, drug and neural stimulation studies indicate that emotional stimuli engage specific cognitive and neural mechanisms that enhance explicit memory.
Emotional memory refers to the phenomenon where individuals have a stronger recollection of events that evoke emotions compared to neutral events. This type of memory is significantly less likely to be forgotten over time and is influenced by brain regions such as the amygdala and hippocampus.
“Emotional memory” is shorthand for denoting the memory of experiences that evoked an emotional reaction. It is most commonly used to refer to the ability to consciously remember aspects of those experiences; in other words, the term is used to describe the effects of emotion on episodic memory.
We refer here to emotional memories as memories for events, which are associated with an affective response (e.g. negative or positive feelings, facial and bodily responses). Encoding of such memories typically involves the amygdala, in addition to the hippocampus-dependent declarative memory system.
