The anatomy of memory and emotion

Question 1

Episodic memory

Answer 1

Remembering events, conversations, experiences

Key area: hippocampus, located in medial temporal lobe

Question 2

Modulation by emotion

Answer 2

Amygdala

Question 3

Modulation by attention

Answer 3

Anterior cingulate gyrus

Question 4

Stages of memory

Answer 4

Encoding into short term memory

Consolidation into long term memory

Recall

Question 5

Semantic memory

Answer 5

Conceptual understanding, categorisation, knowledge, information

Question 6

Linking together parts of a concept in semantic memory

Answer 6

Anterior (ant-inf-lat) temporal cortex

Question 7

Categorising a visual percept

Answer 7

Posterior temporal cortex

Question 8

Controlling retrieval of sematic information

Answer 8

Ventrolateral frontal cortex

Question 9

Parts of a concept

Answer 9

Neocortical sensory areas

Question 10

Experience of emotion or evaluation of affective relevance

Answer 10

Amygdala

Question 11

Regulating, putting into context

Answer 11

Ventral frontal cortex

Question 12

Learning emotional relevance, recalling emotion

Answer 12

Hippocampus

Question 13

Preparing for response

Answer 13

Hypothalamus

Autonomic nervous system

Question 14

Visceral ‘feelings’

Answer 14

Anterior insula

Question 15

Emotionally directed attention

Answer 15

Amygdala links to cortex

Anterior cingulate

Question 16

Emotional arousal

Answer 16

Aminergic nuclei

Question 17

Experience of reward

Answer 17

Nucleus accumbens

Amygdala

Question 18

Learning reward

Answer 18

Ventral tegmental area