Memory for emotional material in temporal lobe epilepsy
- Múnera Martínez, Claudia Patricia
- Lomlomdjian, Ana Carolina
- Terpiluk, Verónica
- Medel, Nancy Ruth
- Solis, Patricia
- Kochen, Sara Silvia
DOIAbstract
Several studies suggest that highly emotional information could facilitate long-term memory encoding and consolidation processes via an amygdala-hippocampal network. Our aim was to assess emotional perception and episodic memory for emotionally arousing material in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) who are candidates for surgical treatment. We did this by using an audiovisual paradigm. Forty-six patients with medically resistant TLE (26 with left TLE and 20 with right TLE) and 19 healthy controls were assessed with a standard narrative test of emotional memory. The experimental task consisted of sequential picture slides with an accompanying narrative depicting a story that has an emotional central section. Subjects were asked to r...
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