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Emotional memory: From affective relevance to arousal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Alison Montagrin  and
David Sander
Alison Montagrin
Affiliation:
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland alison.montagrin@unige.ch david.sander@unige.ch http://cms.unige.ch/fapse/EmotionLab/Members/alison-montagrin/index.php http://cms.unige.ch/fapse/EmotionLab/Members/david-sander/index.php Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
David Sander
Affiliation:
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland alison.montagrin@unige.ch david.sander@unige.ch http://cms.unige.ch/fapse/EmotionLab/Members/alison-montagrin/index.php http://cms.unige.ch/fapse/EmotionLab/Members/david-sander/index.php Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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Abstract

Arousal is typically conceived as a key component of emotional response. We describe here the psychological processes thought to elicit arousal – in particular, the processes involved in the appraisal of affective relevance. The key role of relevance in attentional and memory processing, and its links with arousal, is discussed with respect to the GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) model described by Mather et al.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e216
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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