Ritchey et al., Neuropsychologia (2018)

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Overview

Whats the deal with emotional enhancement of memory? How are different associations (item-emotion, item-context) handled in and out of the MTL? Along with the amygdala and hippocampus (HPC), what role do the perirhinal cortex (PRC) and parahippocampal cortex (PHC) play in encoding emotional and contextual information? etc. etc.

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Results

In short, authors report double dessociation of roles in the MTL:

Conclusions