Abstract
Hemispheric bases for emotion and memory.
Highlights
The goal of this Research Topic was to bring together diverse scientific perspectives on lateralized brain mechanisms underlying emotion, motivation, and memory
The first theme is related to dynamic interhemispheric interactions that subserve emotion, motivational states, and memory
The first is Parker and colleagues’ Effects of Saccadic Bilateral Eye Movements on Episodic and Semantic Autobiographical Memory Fluency (Parker et al, 2013), demonstrating that horizontal saccadic eye movements enhance episodic but not semantic autobiographical memory retrieval. In accounting for these results, the authors point to the hemispheric encoding/retrieval asymmetry (HERA; Habib et al, 2003) model and its suggestion that episodic memory retrieval depends on efficient and dynamic interhemispheric interactions
Summary
The goal of this Research Topic was to bring together diverse scientific perspectives on lateralized brain mechanisms underlying emotion, motivation, and memory. The first theme is related to dynamic interhemispheric interactions that subserve emotion, motivational states, and memory. Elizabeth Shobe’s article, Independent and Collaborative Contributions of the Cerebral Hemispheres to Emotional Processing (Shobe, 2014) proposes a framework for understanding the interaction of lateralized brain mechanisms for identifying and understanding emotional stimuli and engaging in higher-order emotional processing.
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