Emotional amnesia in humans with focal temporal pole lesions
Robin Hellerstedt, Manuela Costa, Dominic Giles, Diana Ortega‐Cruz, Alba Peris-Yague, Lukas Imbach, Johannes Sarnthein, Debora Ledergerber, Philip Grewe, Johanna Maria Kissler, Friedrich G. Woermann, Christian G. Bien, António Gil‐Nagel, Rafael Toledano, Bryan Andrew Strange
The paper shows that left ventral temporal pole lesions impair verbal emotional memory but not neutral memory, while right lesions affect visual emotional memory, highlighting a lateralized role in emotional memory.
bioRxiv · Oct 22, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience