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1. Introduction
2. Why we have emotions
3. Studying human emotions
4. Defining emotion
5. The brain and emotion
6. The amygdalas connectivity
7. Talk outline
8. Emotion and attention
9. Emotion aids attention and perception
10. The 'attentional blink' task
11. The 'attentional blink' task - results
12. The role of the amygdala in attention modulation
13. The amygdala and the visual cortex
14. Emotion affects the ability to detect contrast
15. Methodology
16. Attention and emotion affect contrast threshold
17. Why emotions aid attention and perception
18. Emotion impairs processing of neutral events
19. Emotion captures attention
20. Studying the effect of emotion on attention
21. Emotion enhances attention
22. Effects of emotion on brain circuitry
23. Emotion affects activity in specific brain regions
24. Emotion and memory - encoding
25. Encoding (attention)
26. Emotion and memory - storage
27. How emotion influences memory storage
28. Immediate and delayed recall
29. Emotion enhances memory storage (1)
30. Emotion enhances memory storage (2)
31. Emotion and memory - retrieval
32. Flashbulb memories
33. September 12, 2001 - describing the events
34. September 12, 2002 - recalling the events
35. "Remember" vs. "know" judgment
36. "Remember" vs. "know" - in parahippocampus
37. Remember' vs. 'know' - in amygdala
38. "Remember" vs. "know" - double dissociation
39. Emotion increases confidence in memory
40. Recalling 9.11
41. Recalling 9.11 vs. other life events
42. Recalling 9.11 vs. other life events - brain activity
43. Emotion influences the three stages of memory
44. Emotion impacts decisions
45. Fear, emotion and action
46. How we make choices
47. How emotions influence decisions: loss aversion
48. Loss aversion and arousal
49. Loss aversion, arousal and the amygdala
50. Emotion colors thoughts and actions
51. Thoughts and emotions (1)
52. Thoughts and emotions (2)
53. Fear conditioning and brain activity
54. Attend vs. regulate trials
55. Diminishing the emotional response to stimuli
56. Attend vs. regulate trials - amygdala activation
57. Emotion regulation and the prefrontal cortex
58. Emotion regulation
59. Thoughts and emotion - summary
60. Cognition and emotion - summary
61. Acknowledgments
62. 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

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Series:

• Cognitive Neuroscience

Categories:

• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on March 5, 2012

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Elizabeth Phelps has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.