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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Resting-state functional connectivity in the brain's salience network, especially its ventral subsystem, is linked to affective reactivity.
  • Heightened emotional arousal improves memory consolidation, implying a role for affect in memory enhancement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether individuals with greater ventral salience network connectivity show enhanced memory responses to affective experiences.
  • To test the hypothesis that pre-existing ventral salience network connectivity predicts the extent to which affect modulates memory.

Main Methods:

  • Resting-state functional connectivity of the ventral salience network was measured in 41 young adults.
  • Participants underwent neutral and negative affect inductions during a paired-associate memory task.
  • Memory performance was correlated with resting connectivity between ventral salience nodes (ventral anterior insula and pregenual anterior cingulate cortex).

Main Results:

  • A significant interaction was found between mood induction condition (negative vs. neutral) and connectivity between the ventral anterior insula and pregenual anterior cingulate cortex.
  • Connectivity within the ventral salience network predicted memory performance specifically for material encoded during negative affect induction, not neutral induction.

Conclusions:

  • The intrinsic network state of the brain, as measured by resting-state connectivity, significantly influences how emotional experiences modulate memory.
  • These findings have implications for understanding memory alterations in affective disorders, which involve changes in both brain connectivity and emotional processing.