Positive and negative emotional arousal increases duration of memory traces: common and independent mechanisms

Positive and negative emotional arousal increases duration of memory traces: common and independent mechanisms

We compared the ability of positive and negative emotional arousal to increase the duration of consolidated memory traces. Positive arousal was modulated by manipulating the motivational salience of the testing cage of an object recognition test (ORT). Negative emotional arousal was modulated by man...

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Main Authors: Fabio eCruciani, Andrea eBerardi, Simona eCabib, David eConversi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Rolipram
Persistence
object recognition
Long-term memory
cAMP
emotional arousal
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00086/full

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