Amygdala activity at encoding corresponds with memory vividness and with memory for select episodic details

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 663-673

  Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Addis, Donna Rose ^b,c   Atapattu, Ranga K ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emotion; Encoding; FMRI; Parametric; Subsequent memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; VIVID MEMORY; COGNITION; MEMORY VIVIDNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952617653     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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