MECHANISMS OF EMOTIONAL AROUSAL AND LASTING DECLARATIVE MEMORY

Citation
L. Cahill et Jl. Mcgaugh, MECHANISMS OF EMOTIONAL AROUSAL AND LASTING DECLARATIVE MEMORY, Trends in neurosciences, 21(7), 1998, pp. 294-299
Citations number
83
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
ISSN journal
01662236
Volume
21
Issue
7
Year of publication
1998
Pages
294 - 299
Database
ISI
SICI code
0166-2236(1998)21:7<294:MOEAAL>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Neuroscience is witnessing growing interest in understanding brain mec hanisms of memory formation for emotionally arousing events, a develop ment closely related to renewed interest in the concept of memory cons olidation. Extensive research in animals implicates stress hormones an d the amygdaloid complex as key,interacting modulators of memory conso lidation for emotional events. Considerable evidence suggests that the amygdala is not a site of long-term explicit or declarative memory st orage, but serves to influence memory-storage processes in other brain regions, such as the hippocampus, striatum and neocortex. Human-subje ct studies confirm the prediction of animal work that the amygdala is involved with the formation of enhanced declarative memory for emotion ally arousing events.