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Emotional memories

Apr 26, 2007 09:00

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emotional memories, visual tasks, hippocampus, natalie denburg, fmri, memories, elizabeth kensiger, affect, visual stimuli, larry cahill, gender differences, brains, sex differences, neuroscience, suzanne corkin, amygdala, memory, verbal tasks, mri, turhan canli

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Emotional stimuli differenceblog April 26 2007, 13:44:05 UTC

I do realize that they are not using pictures like this for the stimuli - but I wanted today's comments to be more fun and fluffy than serious.

For examples of real "emotional face" stimuli, see James Boster's "Emotions" site at UConn.

detonate_for_me April 26 2007, 14:15:10 UTC

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differenceblog April 26 2007, 14:20:55 UTC

The top left picture is cute, but odd, somehow. The older kid's smile looks like he might start to cry. I don't know... it's striking me weirdly.

The abstract art (circles) I have no idea what to make of.

Glove-snatching kitty always makes me happy.

aroraborealis April 26 2007, 14:49:58 UTC

I have more photos that convey "contentment or "happiness" than the peak of "joy", interestingly. But here's a happy one that makes me feel good when I look at it:

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