Memory and Emotion

by Reisberg, Daniel; Hertel, Paula

• ISBN13: 9780195158564
• ISBN10: 0195158563
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few. Memory and Emotion spans all these areas and brings them together into one volume. Daniel Reisberg and Paula Hertel have assembled contributions from the most visible and productive researchers working at the intersection of emotion and memory. The result is a sophisticated profile of our current understanding of how memory is shaped both by emotion and emotional disorder. The diverse list of topics includes the biology of traumatic memory, the memory disorders produced by depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, the nature of emotional memory both in children and the elderly, and the collective memory processes at work in remembering the Holocaust. This unified collection of cutting-edge research will be an invaluable guide to scholars and students in many different research areas.

Author Biography

James L. McGaugh is the Director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Contributors,	xiii
1. Memory for Emotional Events,	3	(39)
Daniel Reisberg and Friderike Heuer
2. The Neuroanatomy of Emotional Memory in Humans,	42	(34)
Tony W. Buchanan and Ralph Adolphs
3. The Biopsychology of Trauma and Memory,	76	(53)
Jessica D. Payne, Lynn Nadel, Willoughby B. Britton, and W. Jake Jacobs
4. Forgetting Trauma?	129	(26)
Richard J. McNally, Susan A. Clancy, and Heidi M. Barrett
5. Selective Memory Effects in Anxiety Disorders: An Overview of Research Findings and Their Implications,	155	(31)
Colin MacLeod and Andrew Mathews
6. Memory for Emotional and Nonemotional Events in Depression: A Question of Habit?	186	(31)
Paula Hertel
7. Emotion, Memory, and Conscious Awareness in Schizophrenia,	217	(25)
Jean-Marie Darrion, Caroline Huron, Lydia Rizzo, and Pierre Vidailhet
8. Children's Memories of Emotional Events,	242	(30)
Robyn Fivush and Jessica McDermott Sales
9. Aging and Emotional Memory,	272	(36)
Mara Mather
10. Emotion and Eyewitness Memory,	308	(39)
Robin S. Edelstein, Kristen Weede Alexander, Gail S. Goodman, and Jeremy W. Newton
11. Emotional Memory in Survivors of the Holocaust: A Qualitative Study of Oral Testimony,	347	(44)
Robert N. Kraft
Index,	391