This book deals primarily with the role of emotions in the mechanisms of memory. It is a compilation of the lectures given at a course conducted at the International School of Biocybernetics.
Contents: From Perception to Retrieval - The Building Blocks of Memory: Functional Neuroanatomy of Memory (H J Markowitsch); Electrocortical Processing of Subliminally Presented Phobic Stimuli (S Krieshel et al.); Emotional Gating of Memory Content: The Neurobiology of Emotion and Mood (R J Dolan); Auditory Sensory Gating in the Hippocampus (P C Bickford et al.); Declarative and Non-Declarative Memory: Human Memory Systems (R J Dolan); Cognitive and Brain Mechanisms Involved in Procedural Learning (K Schmidtke); From Cellular Mechanisms to the Architecture of Memory: Short and Long-Term Memory (R Walz et al.); Noradrenergic Agonist-Induced Catalepsy and Learning Effect in Albino Mice (A Sukul & N C Sukul); Memory and Emotion in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Subjects: Brain Mechanisms Involved in Emotion (E T Rolls); The Impact of Memory Training in Dementia (M S Tropper); Psychogenic, Non-Organic Factors in Memory and Emotion: Memory Biases: A Cognitive Marker for Depression (E Gilboa-Schechtman); Postural Memories and Emotions (M G Turati); and other papers.
