Memory for emotions: remembering or knowing the past

The purpose with this experiment is to elucidate the contribution from different areas of the human neocortex to remembering and knowing about the past.

• Staff:

Thomas Karlsson , FD		Project Manager		IBV/Dept of Behavioural Sciences
Maria Engström , FD				IMV/CMIV
Mattias Ragnehed				IMV/CMIV

• Former Staff:

Birgitta Söderfeldt , MD, PhD				Karolinska sjukh
Pontus Challis , Student
Erik Rönnmark , Student

• Project Description:
Participants are asked to memorize emotional and neutral words for a subsequent recognition memory task while being monitored in the MRI scanner. During the recognition task, participants also provide ratings as to recollective experience. Previous work has indicated that this procedure is highly sensitive to detection of clinically significant memory problems. As well as being of general interest, more specifically understanding about the neural underpinnings of such recollective deficits could advance or understanding of memory problems, including diagnosis and treatment.