Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: roles of amygdala and hippocampus

Emotional arousal is well-known to enhance memory for individual items or events, whereas it can impair association memory. The neural mechanism of this association memory impairment by emotion is not known: In response to emotionally arousing information, amygdala activity may interfere with hippoc...

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Main Authors: Madan, Christopher R., Fujiwara, Esther, Caplan, Jeremy B., Sommer, Tobias
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49064/