BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2004/newsitem/795/10-N ovember-2004-CSCA-Lecture-Prof-dr-W-T-A-M-Everaerd DTSTAMP:20041107T000000 SUMMARY:CSCA Lecture, Prof. dr. W.T.A.M. Everaerd ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Prof. dr. W.T.A.M. Everaerd (UvA) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041110T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041110T000000 LOCATION:University Library, Doelenzaal, Singel 42 5, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:'Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ', a recent movie, presents a romantic and futuris tic neuroscience approach to deleting autobiograph ical memories. Although the idea of inducing amnes ia may be intriguing it seems to be mere speculati on in the light of the state of the art in neurosc ience. In this lecture I will review the role of a utobiographical memories in emotional experience; how do these memories contribute to what is experi enced? After that I will discuss an approach to th e modulation of emotional memories, which may even tually result in the modulation of emotional exper ience. I propose that retrieval of past emotional experiences needs hippocampal and amygdaloid trans mission as long as this retrieval generates emotio nal responses. Memories that generate emotions are 'hot', in contrast to cold memories that are not accompanied by arousing emotional reactions. I hyp othesize that these hot memories are better consol idated than cold memories. Modulation of emotional memories occurs through the action of stress horm ones, which may influence encoding, consolidation as well as retrieval. Let's see where we are at th is point in time. For more information see the C SCA website at http://www.csca.uva.nl/. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n 'Eternal suns hine of the spotless mind', a recent movie,\n presents a romantic and futuristic neuroscience a pproach to\n deleting autobiographical memori es. Although the idea of\n inducing amnesia m ay be intriguing it seems to be mere\n specul ation in the light of the state of the art in\n neuroscience. In this lecture I will review th e role of\n autobiographical memories in emot ional experience; how do these\n memories con tribute to what is experienced? After that I will\ n discuss an approach to the modulation of em otional memories,\n which may eventually resu lt in the modulation of emotional\n experienc e. I propose that retrieval of past emotional\n experiences needs hippocampal and amygdaloid tr ansmission as\n long as this retrieval genera tes emotional responses. Memories\n that gene rate emotions are 'hot', in contrast to cold memor ies\n that are not accompanied by arousing em otional reactions. I\n hypothesize that these hot memories are better consolidated than\n cold memories. Modulation of emotional memories oc curs through\n the action of stress hormones, which may influence encoding,\n consolidatio n as well as retrieval. Let's see where we are at\ n this point in time.\n \n
\n For more information see the CSCA website at\n http://www.csca.uva.nl/.\n
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