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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

Post-Encoding Amygdala-Visuosensory Coupling Is Associated with Negative Memory Bias in Healthy Young Adults.

Sarah M Kark, Elizabeth A Kensinger

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. The power of negative and positive episodic memories.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sarah M KarkDepartment of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467 kark@bc.edu.
Elizabeth A KensingerDepartment of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467.

Funding

Upgrade Siemens MAGNETOM Trio to MAGNETOM Prisma Fit 3T Human MRI SystemS10OD020039 · OD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI BUCKNER, RANDY L · 2015 to 2015
$600k
Necessity of occipital cortex for retrieving and re-experiencing negative memoriesF31MH113304 · NIMH · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI KARK, SARAH MARIE · 2017 to 2018
$60k
NIH HHS S10 OD020039NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH113304
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amygdala is well documented as the critical nexus of emotionally enhanced memory, yet its role in the creation of negative memory biases, better memory for negative compared with positive stimuli, has not been clarified. Although prior work suggests valence-specific effects at the moment of "online" encoding and retrieval, with enhanced visuosensory processes supporting negative memories in particular, here we tested the novel hypothesis that the amygdala engages with distant cortical regions after encoding in a manner that predicts inter-individual differences in negative memory biases in humans. Twenty-nine young adults (males and females) were scanned while they incidentally encoded negative, neutral, and positive scenes, each preceded by a line-drawing sketch of the scene. Twenty-four hours later, participants were scanned during an Old/New recognition memory task with only the line-drawings presented as retrieval cues. We replicated and extended our prior work, showing that enhanced online visuosensory recapitulation supports negative memory. Critically, resting-state scans flanked the encoding task, allowing us to show for the first time that individual differences in "off-line" increases in amygdala resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) immediately following encoding relate to negative and positive memory bias at test. Specifically, post-encoding increases in amygdala RSFC with visuosensory and frontal regions were associated with the degree of negative and positive memory bias, respectively. These findings provide new evidence that valence-specific negative memory biases can be linked to the way that sensory processes are integrated into amygdala-centered emotional memory networks.

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AdolescentAdultAmygdalaCognitionEmotionsFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMemoryNeuropsychological TestsRecognition, PsychologyVisual PerceptionYoung Adultamygdalaemotionmemorypost-encodingresting statevalence

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PMID30760626
PMCPMC6468097

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