Memory

Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes

“…It is highly interconnected with neocortical and allocortical (limbic) structures (e.g., entorhinal cortex, amygdala, septum) and all major neocortical association areas (Nieuwenhuys et al, 1988). The hippocampal formation is mainly involved in memory (for a summary, see Markowitsch, 1999b) and spatial functions (Maguire et al, 2000), but it may also contribute to the emotional modulation of memory via its involvement in neural networks (e.g., Driessen et al, 2004). The entorhinal cortex, for example, receives input from subcortical areas such as the amygdala and projects to the hippocampus.…”