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Bodily arousal differentially impacts stimulus processing and memory: Norepinephrine in interoception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Hugo D. Critchley  and
Sarah N. Garfinkel
Hugo D. Critchley
Affiliation:
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RH, United Kingdom www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/ Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9PX, United Kingdom h.critchley@bsms.ac.uk s.garfinkel@bsms.ac.uk www.bsms.ac.uk/research/our-research/psychiatry Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Swandean Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3EP, United Kingdom
Sarah N. Garfinkel
Affiliation:
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RH, United Kingdom www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/ Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9PX, United Kingdom h.critchley@bsms.ac.uk s.garfinkel@bsms.ac.uk www.bsms.ac.uk/research/our-research/psychiatry
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Abstract

Bodily arousal modulates stimulus processing and memory, contributing to expression of emotional salience. The “glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects” (GANE) model proposed by Mather and colleagues can be extended to account for the differential impact of interoceptive (notably cardiac afferent) signals on sensory processing. However, some emotion-specific effects, for example, for fear, may further depend on functional anatomical organisation of affect-related brain structures.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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