Practice question · Put in order
Order how a new emotionally charged memory gets encoded.
- Later, the memory can be recalled as a fact or event.
- The amygdala flags it as emotionally significant.
- The hippocampus binds it into a new long-term declarative memory.
- An emotionally arousing event occurs.
Hints
- The amygdala tags the emotion; the hippocampus does the actual memory formation.
- Encoding happens first; recall comes later.
Show the answer
- An emotionally arousing event occurs.
- The amygdala flags it as emotionally significant.
- The hippocampus binds it into a new long-term declarative memory.
- Later, the memory can be recalled as a fact or event.
Why
The amygdala tags the event's emotional significance, boosting the hippocampus's formation of a durable declarative memory that can later be recalled. Emotional tagging is why charged events are remembered more strongly than neutral ones.
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