Frontal Activity During a Verbal Emotional Working Memory Task in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

Emotional – compared to non-emotional - information is more likely to be remembered. This emotional enhancement of memory (EEM) is a well-known phenomenon especially among healthy young people (Baran et al., 2014; Kensinger et al., 2002; Kensinger and Corkin, 2003b). The EEM effect was also observed in heal thy older people (Mather and Carstensen, 2005; Schultz et al., 2009). Carstensen and Mikels (2005) proposed that older people utilize a cognitive filter and/or a control mechanism over the afferent stimuli.

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - January 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fatma Ebru Ate ş, Banu Cangöz, Erguvan Tuğba Özel Kızıl, Bora Baskak, Zeynel Baran, Halise Devrimci Özgüven Source Type: research