Moreover, the amygdala seems to be involved in FM recall. The present findings are compatible with previous research into autobiographical memory, but also show activations for FM recall different from ordinary, not highly emotional autobiographical memories, as EMO is associated with a more bilateral network. FM > FMC was associated with right hippocampal activations. ROI-analysis revealed activations for EMO in the right amygdala and HATA. EMO was associated with a more bilateral activation pattern. FM > FMC yielded activations in line with the autobiographical memory network, with mostly left sided-activations. ROI-analyses on mesiotemporal regions were performed. The main contrast of interest were FM > FMC and activations associated with EMO. Memories of highly emotional events will be exceptionally clear, detailed, and accurate These events will be remembered as vividly as a photograph, hence the. These personal facts differ from what is called semantic memory, which gives context to your episodic memories. Ask yourself where you were on the day, the moment of the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11, or the moment you heard of Princess Diana’s death, the explosion of the Challenger spacecraft, or the. The memory is solely from your perspective. When you recall the memory, you may remember the sights, sounds, and smells.

Episodic memories play out like an episode of television. The individual emotional reaction to the FM events (EMO) and self-rated retrieval success were included in the SPM model as modulating parameters. Flashbulb memories are a special type of episodic memory. A definition naming task was used as an implicit baseline.

20 healthy adults completed a block design with an FM-condition, where the reception events for a number of potential FM events had to be recalled, and a control condition (FMC) comprising reception events lacking FM characteristics. The present study investigated neural activations related to flashbulb memory (FM) recall and examined whether the amygdala and hippocampus are involved in FM recall.

Flashbulb memory