The amygdala modulates the consolidation of memories of emotionally arousing experiences.

By James McGaugh. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Overnight Therapy? The Role of Sleep in Emotional Brain Processing (2009, background): “More specifically, and based on the coincident neurophysiology that REM sleep provides and the neurobiological requirements of emotional memory processing (Cahill, 2000; McGaugh, 2004), work has begun to test a selective REM sleep-dependent hypothesis of affective human memory consolidation.”
Emotion and memory narrowing: A review and goal-relevance approach (2009, background): “Arousal is commonly viewed as indicating the degree of urgency or importance of a situation to an individual (e.g., Compton, 2003; McGaugh, 2004).”
The Biology of Trust: Integrating Evidence From Genetics, Endocrinology, and Functional Brain Imaging (2012, background): “, 2009), and arousal, rather than the valence of emotion, has been demonstrated to mediate memory (McGaugh, 2004).”
Neuronal signalling of fear memory (2004, background): “Furthermore, LA neurons seem to drive plasticity at both thalamic and cortical levels, indicating that the amygdala facilitates memory storage in widespread areas, as shown by McGaugh and co-workers for inhibitory avoidanc”
Affective picture processing: an integrative review of ERP findings. (2008, background): “…directly through the thalamus and enhances cortical and subcortical processing of the visual stimulus based on its affective arousal value, which leads to improved memory for emotional stimuli (Cahill et al., 1995, 1996; Hamann et al., 1996; LeDoux, 2000; McGaugh, 2004, 2005; McGaugh et al., 2002).”
The development of alarm-call behaviour in mammals and birds (2009, background): “In some species, elevated corticoids can also facilitate learning and memory (Hanson & Coss 2001a; McGaugh 2004), so future work should explore whether an increase in arousal could function to promote acquisition of alarm call behaviour rather than being the direct cause itself (see Mateo 2006).”
Multiple Intelligences, the Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Review (2006, background): “Emotional arousal enhances memory formation by positively influencing the period of neurobiological activity called consolidation that establishes a memory in the brain (McGaugh, 2004; Phelps, 2006).”
The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory (2017, background): “Thus, BLA activation results from emotionally arousing events, which appear to modulate memory storage-related regions that influence long-term memories (McGaugh, 2004).”
The Role of Sleep in Emotional Brain Function (2014, background): “Affective experiences appear to be remembered more robustly than neutral memories due to well characterized set of adrenergic and peripheral autonomic reactions elicited at the time of the experience, orchestrated, in part, by the locus coeruleus (McGaugh 2004).”
Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion (2009, background): “…when there is both an arousal-related enhancement in noradrenergic activation, leading to interactions between the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala and other regions important for sensory and mnemonic processing, and also the release of glucocorticoids (reviewed by McGaugh, 2004; Wolf, 2008).”
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child (2006, background): “…localized areas and prime memory storage , hence improving cognitive processes for responding to social challenges (Beylin & Shors, 2003; Boyce & Ellis, 2005; Hui et al., 2004; LeDoux, 2000, 2003; cf. McEwen & Sapolsky, 1995; McGaugh, 2004; de Quervain, Roozendaal, Nitsch, McGaugh, & Hock, 2000).”
The Temporal Dynamics Model of Emotional Memory Processing: A Synthesis on the Neurobiological Basis of Stress-Induced Amnesia, Flashbulb and Traumatic Memories, and the Yerkes-Dodson Law (2007, background): “[316]; RichterLevin [20]; McGaugh [88]; Akirav and Richter-Levin [22]), hypothalamus (Nakanishi et al.”
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (2009, background): “The interaction of the amygdala with memory systems imbues memories with the emotional tone experienced during and following the recalled event (McGaugh, 2004).”
Cellular and Systems Consolidation of Declarative Memory (2017, result): “This finding is consistent with prior work showing that the amygdala can influence the post-training consolidation processes in the hippocampus (McGaugh 2004) (see also Chapters by Cunningham and Payne and by Meir Drexler and Wolf) but is the first to show that this effect can be selective…”
Sleep’s Role in the Consolidation of Emotional Episodic Memories (2010, neutral): “These findings are consistent with a study by Sterpenich et al. (2009) and suggest that sleep strengthens the modulatory effect of the amygdala on other regions of the emotional memory network, consistent with consolidation theory (McGaugh, 2004).”