Memories are deeply intertwined with emotions. Does loss of memory mean loss of emotion as well? Research suggests this may not be the case.
Study subjects with memory loss retained emotions even after forgetting the experience that had evoked them.Emotions and memories go hand in hand. Many researchers have reported that memories of emotional events are easier to recall than memories of everyday events, like what you had for breakfast two days ago or whether or not you brushed your teeth today, despite the fact that these ordinary tasks are quite literally ones we perform every single day..
So it is clear that emotions can and do influence memory. But does it work the other way around? If memory is impaired, what happens to emotion? In 2010, Feinstein, Duff, and Tranel examined memories for emotional events in a unique group of patients with severe anterograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories.
Papez's circuit and the more modern depiction of the limbic system. Note the overlap with memory areas of the brainThere was a significant difference in declarative memory for details from the film between control and amnesic participants. The control participants remembered roughly 30 details from the films while the amnesic subjects remembered about five details on average. Emotion ratings measured as change from baseline fell to almost baseline levels in the control group.
In 2014 Guzman-Velez, Feinstein, and Tranel examined the link between memory and emotion in a group of patients suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease , a far larger subset of the population than are severe amnesia patients.
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