Emotional memory

The aroma of fmit, the taste of candy, and the texture of bread are examples of flavor perception. In each case, physical and chemical stmctures ia these foods stimulate receptors ia the nose and mouth. Impulses from these receptors are then processed iato perceptions of flavor by the brain. Attention, emotion, memory, cognition, and other brain functions combine with these perceptions to cause behavior, eg, a sense of pleasure, a memory, an idea, a fantasy, a purchase. These are psychological processes and as such have all the complexities of the human mind. Flavor characterization attempts to define what causes flavor and to determine if human response to flavor can be predicted. The ways ia which simple flavor active substances, flavorants, produce perceptions are described both ia terms of the physiology, ie, transduction, and psychophysics, ie, dose-response relationships, of flavor (1,2). Progress has been made ia understanding how perceptions of simple flavorants are processed iato hedonic behavior, ie, degree of liking, or concept formation, eg, crispy or umami (savory) (3,4). However, it is unclear how complex mixtures of flavorants are perceived or what behavior they cause. Flavor characterization involves the chemical measurement of iadividual flavorants and the use of sensory tests to determine their impact on behavior. 

LeDoux, JE and Muller, J (1997) Emotional memory and psychopathology. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 352 1719-1726. 

Limbic system Controls emotions, memory, and motivation... 

Emotional Memory, Drug Craving, and Drug Seeking... 

Gaffan David. 1992. "Amygdala and the Memory of Reward." In The Amygdala Neurobiological Aspects of Emotion, Memory, and Mental Dysfunction, edited by John P. Aggleton. New York Wiley. 

Aphrodite kissed the Doctor once more, then pressed her cheek to his, holding the embrace and bathing in a stream of emotions, memories and moments that now included this one. There is so much I have to tell you. ... 

LeDoux, J. E. (1993) Emotional memory systems in the brain. Behav Brain Res 58, 69-79. 

In addition to their peripheral functions, including presynaptic facilitation of noradrenaline release, p-adrenoceptors play a role in regulating numerous functions of the central nervous system, including sympathetic tone, learning and memory, mood, and food intake. Mice lacking dopamine p-hydroxylase or p-adrenoceptor subtypes were used to study the involvement in memory functions. Noradrenaline acting at p, -receptors was found to be essential for retrieval of contextual and spatial memory, but it was not necessary for retrieval of emotional memories (Murchison... 

Hippocampus Pl,P2 a2 Excitation of pyramidal neurons. Induction of LTP. Inhibition of GABA basket cells Emotional memory. Fear conditioning and extinction. 

Entactogene and hallucinogenic amphetamines, furthermore, have an effect on the serotonin system by increasing the availability of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that controls sleep, mood, emotion, memory, perception, sexual behavior, and hunger [14],... 

Nader K, LeDoux J (1999) The DA-ergic modulation of fear Quinpirole impairs the recall of emotional memories in rats. Behav Neurosci 113 152-165. 

LeDoux, Joseph E. Emotion, Memory, and the Brain. Scientific American 6 (1994) 50-57. 

Chamberlain SR, Muller U, Blackwell AD, Robbins TW, Sahakian B (2006b) Noradrenergic modulation of working memory and emotional memory in humans. Psychopharmacol 188 397-407. 

Relapse typically occurs because emotional memories of the addictive high run very deep, and when stimulated can arouse old cravings and compulsions too powerful to resist. Relapse doesn t discount or destroy work done in recovery. Indeed, for many young people, it turns out to be a powerfully convincing experience, causing them to more fully accept the vulnerability of their condition, and to strengthen their commitment to get back on, and stay on, a path of recovery. 

Human emotions are affected by the environment, the direct interaction with the outside world and also by the emotional memory that emerges from the experience of individual and cultural enviromnent, the so called socialized emotion. Thus, emotions use the same components subjective, cultural, physiological and behavioral that the individual s perception express with regard to the mental state, the body and how it interacts with the enviromnent. Specifically in this work, speech features for the automatic selection of emotional speech will be analyzed shimmer, jitter, intensity, energy or/and RMS [14]. 

Profile of mood states limbic system for emotional memory... 

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