How Does Emotion Affect Attention and Memory?: Attentional Capture, Tunnel Memory, and the Implications for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

ISBN: 9781616688486 出版年：2010 页码：86 Katherine Mickley Steinmetz Elizabeth A Kensinger Nova Science

Out of all of the information that we experience, only a subset will become part of our memories. Attentional processes, engaged during an event’s unfolding, are essential for allowing us to transform an experience into a memory, and emotion can critically modulate those attentional processes, increasing the likelihood that an emotional experience becomes part of our memory stores. This book reviews behavioral and neuroimaging evidence that has revealed effects of emotion on memory and attention in individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).