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Summary
Summary
Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of original articles that explores cutting-edge research in memory and emotion, discussing findings, methodological techniques, and theoretical advances in one of the fastest-growing areas in psychology. contains contributions by leading researchers the field emphasizes cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology, and aging in covering contemporary advances in research on memory and emotion covers many of the current hot topics in the field including: dissociative amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder; false, recovered and traumatic memories; flashbulb memories; the use of emotional memories in therapy; and the influence of emotion on autobiographical memory.
Author Notes
Bob Uttl is Center of Excellence Professor of Psychology at Tamagawa University, Japan.
Nobuo Ohta is Professor of Psychology at the Tokyo University of Social Welfare, Japan.
Amy L. Siegenthaler is a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tokyo University of Social Welfare.
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Arising out of a conference held in Japan in 2005, this book includes essays on cognition, aging and the brain, and psychopathology. Uttl, Ohta, and Siegenthaler (all Tokyo Univ. of Social Welfare) include essays that report basic research findings along with those with an applied focus, either clinical or forensic, a valuable feature. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of essays that take diametrically opposing viewpoints on a topic. For example, in the section on aging, a chapter by Mara Mather describes the "positivity effect" in older adults--i.e., the tendency to show a bias toward memory for positive rather than negative information; in the next chapter Uttl and Peter Graf review much the same literature and conclude that the evidence is not fully convincing. Similarly, the book's final two chapters offer different views on the question of amnesia induced by traumatic events. With the exception of the essay on functional imaging and the essay by Uttl and Graf (mentioned above), graphics are in short supply. More images would have enhanced the readability of several of the chapters. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals. K. S. Milar Earlham College
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. vii |
| Notes on Contributors | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xv |
| 1 Memory and Emotion from Interdisciplinary Perspectives | p. 1 |
| Part I Memory, Emotion, and Cognition | p. 13 |
| 2 Memory for Emotional Episodes: The Strengths and Limits of Arousal-Based Accounts | p. 15 |
| 3 Emotional Valence, Discrete Emotions, and Memory | p. 37 |
| 4 Remembering Emotional Events: The Relevance of Memory for Associated Emotions | p. 59 |
| 5 Are We Frightened Because We Run Away? Some Evidence from Metacognitive Feelings | p. 83 |
| Part II Memory, Emotion, Aging, and the Brain | p. 105 |
| 6 The Memory Enhancing Effect of Emotion: Functional Neuroimaging Evidence | p. 107 |
| 7 Why Memories May Become More Positive as People Age | p. 135 |
| 8 Age-Related Changes in the Encoding and Retrieval of Emotional and Non-Emotional Information | p. 159 |
| Part III Memory, Emotion, and Psychopathology | p. 189 |
| 9 Anxiety and the Encoding of Emotional Information | p. 191 |
| 10 Memory, Emotion, and Psychotherapy: Maximizing the Positive Functions of Self-Defining Memories | p. 211 |
| 11 Trauma and Memory: Normal versus Special Memory Mechanisms | p. 233 |
| 12 Trauma and Memory Revisited | p. 259 |
| Name Index | p. 293 |
| Subject Index | p. 303 |
