Emotion plays a very important role in memory process. Before you can fully understand the role of emotion, you have to understand the memory process. There are three steps to the memory process, encoding, storage, and retrieval. If you do not fully understand memory process then it’ll be difficult to comprehend the role emotions play and the movie Inside Out, although it may be a kid’s movie, is a great way to develop a better understanding on the memory process. The movie Inside Out is about a pre-teen girl’s emotions; joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust, and how they all work together to help create her memories and get through life. Before I get ahead on myself however, let’s talk about the memory process. Memory process is a cycle your memories go through in order to determine if they are long term or short term and attaches emotion to those memories. The first step is called encoding, encoding is the translation of information into a form in which it can be used. Next step is storage, storage is the maintenance on the encoded information over a period on time, this is very similar to a computer. This is where the hippocampus comes in, the hippocampus is the part of the brain where the emotions in Inside Out were located. The hippocampus determines if memories are long term or short term and attaches emotion to the memory but if the hippocampus isn’t paying attention, it may store that memory incorrectly and make it more difficult to retrieve from our memory which
The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the
Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the team leader and she displays compassion and demonstrates the aspect of her that permits her to be happy. Anger is very passionate about making sure things work out fairly for Riley. Disgust is highly opinionated and tries to protect her from poisonous situations whether physically or socially. Sadness was used to signal when Riley needed comfort and support. Finally, Fear, he is always on the lookout and I used to protect her. All five of the emotions contribute to build up Riley’s personality. She is upbeat, honest, cheerful, somewhat neurotic, etc.
Since it is close structurally to the hippocampus, the amygdala is involved in controlling memory consolidation, especially emotional memories; when a memory is emotionally charged, it has a better retention rate than one that is not. The hippocampus is generally seen as having an essential role in the creation of new memories about past experiences; it's even responsible for memories that can be verbalized also known as declarative memory. Damage to it result in difficulties in forming new memories and being able to access new memories formed before the
It attaches memories to the emotions and senses that occurred when it was happening. Then, it sends memories to be stored. It will then file the memory in the correct part of the cerebral cortex where it will stored in long-term storage, able to be retrieved at any time (Robson). The hippocampus is mainly involved with declarative memory, or memory that can purposefully be recalled, such as facts and events. It is not at all involved with short-term memory or procedural memory, which is memory of how to do certain motor actions. Those functions are usually handled by the cortex and the cerebellum. However, that is not all the functions that the hippocampus is involved with. It is involved with several functions in the body including memory consolidation, emotional responses, navigation, and spatial orientation
The hippocampus is part of the limbic system that controls the emotions and autonomic nervous system. The hippocampus controls long-term and short-term memory. It is located in the medial temporal lobe of the brain behind the Amygdala (Hayhurst, 2002). The hippocampus links memory and emotion together,
Hippocampus is a small, curved region, which exists in both hemispheres of the brain and plays a vital role in emotions, learning and acquisition of new information. It also contributes majorly to long term memory, which is permanent information stored in the brain. Although long term memory is the last information that can be forgotten, its impairment has become very common nowadays. The dysfunction is exemplified by many neurological disorders such as amnesia. There are two types of amnesia, anterograde and retrograde. Anterograde amnesia is inability in forming new information, while retrograde refers to the loss of the past memory. As suggested by Cipolotti and Bird (2006), hippocampus’s lesions are
People are able to control hippocampal activity influencing the holding of memories, contingent upon whether or not they desire to be reminded by a stimulus. However many factors
The hippocampus is the region of the brain which correlated to memories in specific, long term memory. This region forms part of the limbo system which is associated with any type of emotional responses. Therefore the act of making memories and anything related to the memory is in correlations and affected by emotions. In 1957 the memory hypothesis was supported by the removal of a hippocampus which resulted in the loss to make any new memories specifically declarative memories. The declarative memory is the memory of facts and events and can refer back to the stores information that can be consciously recalled.
The hippocampus plays a role in memory, emotions and learning. So when you are playing cards with your friends and the game is new to you, you will have to use your hippocampus to learn the game and keep in your memory how to play it. If one of your friends were to have brought a new person over you would have to memorize the new persons name. If you're socializing and someone begins talking
Your hippocampus is involved in helping you store long term declarative memories. While sitting, you and your friends start remembering how you met in elementary school. Without the hippocampus, you would have no idea how your friendship first started. You are playing your card game; you remember the tricks your dad taught you when you were ten. Without the hippocampus you would have no recollection of these memories.
The hippocampus is a structure in the brain that filters memory and determine which gets placed into long-term memory. It cannot hold memory but it can transfer it to the cerebral cortex. This functions in my daily life by transporting all the significant memories I like to remember such as my birthday or an important event into my cerebral cortex. It also discards all the ones seemingly unimportant such as the due date of this
The hippocampus suffers negative effects from PTSD. One of the most wonderful skill that the brain possess is the ability to remember. An article by the name of “PTSD and the Brain” included the following information, part of the brain known as the hippocampus is associated with the making and recalling of memories. It connects senses like sights, smells, and sounds to memories (“PTSD and the Brain”). Within the brain the hippocampus constantly works to maintain a balanced and fully functioning system. It contains skills that aid in supporting the brain with memories that are positive and negative. In reality, when PTSD affects the hippocampus, it disrupts the natural routines and
As we go through our daily lives, we are exposed to sensory material. Our responses to these sensations are predicated upon our past experiences. These experiences are stored as memories. According to Richard Morris, our memories involve a series of interconnected nerve cells that develop strong connections through a process called long-term potentiation (Morris, 2003). Memory making involves the interaction of several structures in the brain: the amygdala processes emotions; the limbic cortex coordinates sensory input with emotion; and the thalamus controls sensory information and attention or alertness. Perhaps the most important structure in the brain responsible for memory is the hippocampus which is located near the middle of the brain (Staniloiu & Markowitsch, 2012). It is believed that the hippocampus serves as a temporary storage area for memories until they are transferred to other structures in the brain for long-term and permanent storage (Graf, etal, 2012). Damage to any of these structures can cause amnesia (Deng, 2010).
Memories do involve interconnected nerve cells that develop strong connections via a process called long-term potentiating on (Morris 2003). Which processes emotions, memories are made using several structures in the brain on a cellular level, including the amygdale, and also which coordinates sensory input with emotions (limbic cortex), and which regulates sensory information and alertness (thalamus) (Rajmohan 2007; Petrovich 2011). However, the hippocampus, located near the middle of the brain, is one of the most important structures for memory (Staniloiu 2012). The hippocampus is thought to serve as a temporary storage space for memories until they can be transferred to other parts of the brain for permanent storage (Nadel 1997; Gräff 2012). Damage to any of these structures can cause amnesia (Deng 2010).
Without the hippocampus, the information from the short-term memory (STM) cannot be stored in long term memory (LTM). The hippocampus is a very important part of the human brain to store our memories. If we lost it, we will lose all our conscious memories. From Henry’s case, it also discovered that there are multiple memory storage areas located at different parts of the brain while the hippocampus is important to consolidate short-term memory to long-term memory. The removal of hippocampus caused Henry to suffer until he died as he lost the ability to make new conscious