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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Neuroimaging

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  • Affect labeling, identifying emotional content, aids implicit emotion regulation.
  • Prior research shows affect labeling impacts negative event encoding.
  • Its effect on later memory stages like retrieval is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how affect labeling during encoding influences recognition memory.
  • To examine behavioral and neural effects of affect labeling on emotional picture memory.

Main Methods:

  • 37 participants performed affect labeling, person labeling, or viewing tasks with emotional/neutral pictures.
  • Behavioral recognition memory was assessed.
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) monitored neural responses, particularly amygdala activation.

Main Results:

  • Affect labeling improved subsequent recognition performance for all pictures.
  • Encoding negative pictures with affect labeling increased amygdala activation compared to other conditions.
  • During recognition, affect labeling reduced amygdala response to negative pictures.

Conclusions:

  • Affect labeling during encoding modulates memory formation for negative events.
  • This modulation influences the retrieval process, reducing amygdala response to previously labeled negative stimuli.