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- Introduction
- Why we have emotions
- Studying human emotions
- Defining emotion
- The brain and emotion
- The amygdalas connectivity
- Talk outline
- Emotion and attention
- Emotion aids attention and perception
- The 'attentional blink' task
- The 'attentional blink' task - results
- The role of the amygdala in attention modulation
- The amygdala and the visual cortex
- Emotion affects the ability to detect contrast
- Methodology
- Attention and emotion affect contrast threshold
- Why emotions aid attention and perception
- Emotion impairs processing of neutral events
- Emotion captures attention
- Studying the effect of emotion on attention
- Emotion enhances attention
- Effects of emotion on brain circuitry
- Emotion affects activity in specific brain regions
- Emotion and memory - encoding
- Encoding (attention)
- Emotion and memory - storage
- How emotion influences memory storage
- Immediate and delayed recall
- Emotion enhances memory storage (1)
- Emotion enhances memory storage (2)
- Emotion and memory - retrieval
- Flashbulb memories
- September 12, 2001 - describing the events
- September 12, 2002 - recalling the events
- "Remember" vs. "know" judgment
- "Remember" vs. "know" - in parahippocampus
- Remember' vs. 'know' - in amygdala
- "Remember" vs. "know" - double dissociation
- Emotion increases confidence in memory
- Recalling 9.11
- Recalling 9.11 vs. other life events
- Recalling 9.11 vs. other life events - brain activity
- Emotion influences the three stages of memory
- Emotion impacts decisions
- Fear, emotion and action
- How we make choices
- How emotions influence decisions: loss aversion
- Loss aversion and arousal
- Loss aversion, arousal and the amygdala
- Emotion colors thoughts and actions
- Thoughts and emotions (1)
- Thoughts and emotions (2)
- Fear conditioning and brain activity
- Attend vs. regulate trials
- Diminishing the emotional response to stimuli
- Attend vs. regulate trials - amygdala activation
- Emotion regulation and the prefrontal cortex
- Emotion regulation
- Thoughts and emotion - summary
- Cognition and emotion - summary
- Acknowledgments
- Thank you
Topics Covered
- Studying & Defining human emotions
- Why emotions aid attention and perception
- How emotion influences memory storage and retrieval- The amygdala and the visual cortex
- Flashbulb memories
- Study case based on recalling 9.11
- "Remember" vs. "know" judgment
- Thoughts & Cognition
- Emotion impact on decisions
- Fear, emotion and action
- Loss aversion and arousal
- Emotion colors thoughts and actions
- Attend vs. Regulate trials
- Emotion regulation and the prefrontal cortex
Talk Citation
Phelps, E. (2012, March 5). Emotion and cognition [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 19, 2021, from https://hstalks.com/bs/2268/.Publication History
Financial Disclosures
- Dr. Elizabeth Phelps has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.