Abstract
One neural mechanism suggested for the emotionalenhancement of memory (EEM) in human behavior isamygdala modulation of hippocampal learning [1]. How-ever, there are several pathways within the hippocampus,supporting different types of memory, e.g., item memoryor associative memory. In emotional learning, the amy-gdala could modulate hippocampal function as a whole,affecting multiple types of hippocampal-dependent learn-ing. Alternatively, amygdala modulation may affect spe-cific pathways, selectively enhancing only some types ofhippocampal-dependent learning. Episodic memory foritems is hippocampal-dependent, but so is memory foritem-item associations; these may rely on different hip-pocampal pathways. Nearly all human emotional mem-ory studies test memory for items only. Apart from EEMfor single items, we tested here whether associative mem-ory, a hippocampal-dependent memory function, is par-ticularly enhanced by emotion.
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Emotion selectively impairs associative memoryChristopher R Madan*1, Christine SM Lau, Jeremy B Caplan and Esther Fujiwara
Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2009 Don H Johnson Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2202-10-S1-info.pdf
One neural mechanism suggested for the emotional enhancement of memory (EEM) in human behavior is amygdala modulation of hippocampal learning [1]
Summary
Christopher R Madan*1, Christine SM Lau, Jeremy B Caplan and Esther Fujiwara. Address: 1Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E9, 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E9 and 3Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E9. Published: 13 July 2009 BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10(Suppl 1):P341 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-10-S1-P341. Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2009 Don H Johnson Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2202-10-S1-info.pdf
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