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Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: an event-related fMRI study

Dolcos, Florin, LaBar, Kevin S., Cabeza, Roberto·2004·NeuroImage
DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.05.015
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Prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity associated with emotional evaluation and subsequent memory was investigated with event-related functional MRI (fMRI). Participants were scanned while rating the pleasantness of emotionally positive, negative, and neutral pictures, and memory for the pictures was tested after scanning. Emotional evaluation was measured by comparing activity during the picture rating task relative to baseline, and successful encoding was measured by comparing activity for subsequently remembered versus forgotten pictures (Dm effect). The effect of arousal on these measures was indicated by greater activity for both positive and negative pictures than for neutral ones, and the effect of valence was indicated by differences in activity between positive and negative pictures. The study yielded three main results. First, consistent with the valence hypothesis, specific regions in left dorsolateral PFC were more activated for positive than for negative picture evaluation, whereas regions in right ventrolateral PFC showed the converse pattern. Second, dorsomedial PFC activity was sensitive to emotional arousal, whereas ventromedial PFC activity was sensitive to positive valence, consistent with evidence linking these regions, respectively, to emotional processing and self-awareness or appetitive behavior. Finally, successful encoding (Dm) activity in left ventrolateral and dorsolateral PFC was greater for arousing than for neutral pictures. This finding suggests that the enhancing effect of emotion on memory formation is partly due to an augmentation of PFC-mediated strategic, semantic, and working memory operations. These results underscore the critical role of PFC in emotional evaluation and memory, and disentangle the effects of arousal and valence across PFC regions associated with different cognitive functions.

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  1. Dolcos, 2003, Coactivation of the amygdala and hippocampus predicts better recall for emotional than for neutral pictures, Brain and Cognition, 51, 221
  2. Shields, 1991, Gender in the psychology of emotion: a selective research review, 227

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Authors
Dolcos, F., LaBar, K. S., & Cabeza, R.
Affiliations
  • University of Alberta (CA)
  • Duke University (US)
Corresponding author
Dolcos, Florin
ORCID
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2004-09
Volume
23
Issue
1
Pages
64-74
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.05.015
OpenAlex
W2100819121
Cited by
439
References
93
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG019731, R01 AG19731)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA014094, R01 DA14094)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
prefrontal cortex, emotional arousal, emotional valence, affective evaluation, emotional memory, subsequent memory, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, valence hypothesis, emotion and memory
MeSH terms
Adult, Arousal, Attention, Brain Mapping, Dominance, Cerebral, Emotions, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Prefrontal Cortex

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