Memory Control: A Fundamental Mechanism of Emotion Regulation

Memories play a ubiquitous role in our emotional lives, both causing vivid emotional experiences in their own right and imbuing perception of the external world with emotional significance. Controlling the emotional impact of memories therefore poses a major emotion-regulation challenge, suggesting that there might be a hitherto unexplored link between the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying memory control (MC) and emotion regulation. We present here a theoretical account of how the mechanisms of MC constitute core component processes of cognitive emotion regulation (CER), and how this observation may help to understand its basic mechanisms and their disruption in psychiatric disorders.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Publication date

  2018-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2018.07.015PMID 30122359PMCID 6198111
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