Beschreibung:
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 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with particular emphasis on how emotion influences the attentional processes that allow individuals to transform experiences into a memory, the differences in the way emotional items are remembered and current controversies regarding the uniqueness of traumatic memories in PTSD.
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 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with particular emphasis on how emotion influences the attentional processes that allow individuals to transform experiences into a memory, the differences in the way emotional items are remembered and current controversies regarding the uniqueness of traumatic memories in PTSD.
Encoding & Attentional Processes; Attentional Processing of Emotion in People without PTSD; Effects of Emotion on Directed Attention; Difficulty Disengaging from Emotional Information.; Attentional Processing in People with PTSD; Preattentive Processes; Directed Attention; Emotional Memory; Emotional Memory in People without PTSD; Emotional Memory in People with PTSD; Voluntary Memories; Involuntary Memory; Memory Controversy: Are trauma memories unique?; General Conclusions; Index.
Attentional processes, engaged during an event's unfolding, are essential for allowing us to transform an experience into a memory. This book reviews the behavioral and neuroimaging evidence that has revealed effects of emotion on memory and attention in individuals with and without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).