The slow forgetting of emotional episodic memories: An emotional binding account

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 259-267

  Yonelinas, Andrew P ^a   Ritchey, Maureen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional memory; Medial temporal lobes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

CONSOLIDATION PROCESS; EPISODIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBES; TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS;

BRAIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; AMYGDALA; MEMORY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928584040     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.02.009     Document Type: Review

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