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Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion

Elizabeth A. Kensinger

Department of Psychology, Boston College, USA, elizabeth.kensinger{at}bc.edu

Though emotion conveys memory benefits, it does not enhance memory equally for all aspects of an experience, nor for all types of emotional events. In this review, I outline the behavioral evidence for arousal's focal enhancements of memory and describe the neural processes that may support those focal enhancements. I also present behavioral evidence to suggest that these focal enhancements occur more often for negative experiences than for positive ones. This result appears to arise because of valence-dependent effects on the neural processes recruited during episodic encoding and retrieval, with negative affect associated with increased engagement of sensory processes, and positive affect leading to enhanced recruitment of conceptual processes.

Key Words: amygdala • encoding • memory • retrieval

Emotion Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, 99-113 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1754073908100432
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