Affect Labeling During Pictorial Encoding Enhances Their Recognition and Reduces Amygdalar Responses to Negative Pictures.

Huiyan Lin; Xiaokang Jin; Hua Jin

doi:10.1002/brb3.71297

March 1, 2026

Affect Labeling During Pictorial Encoding Enhances Their Recognition and Reduces Amygdalar Responses to Negative Pictures.

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Key Points

This research aims to investigate how affect labeling during the encoding of negative events affects memory and emotional responses.
Utilized pictorial encoding tasks with negative images.
Incorporated affect labeling techniques during encoding.
Measured memory recognition and amygdalar responses during retrieval.
Affect labeling significantly improved recognition of negative pictures.
Participants showed reduced amygdalar activation when recalling labeled negative images.
The findings indicate a change in emotional memory processing.

Implication

Experiments demonstrate that affect labeling enhances memory for negative pictures, suggesting a mechanism for emotional regulation.

Abstract

These findings suggest that affect labeling during encoding of negative events modulates their memory formation, thereby influencing subsequent retrieval of those events.

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Lin et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a67eb2f353c071a6f0a1bb https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.71297

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Affect Labeling During Pictorial Encoding Enhances Their Recognition and Reduces Amygdalar Responses to Negative Pictures.

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Affect Labeling During Pictorial Encoding Enhances Their Recognition and Reduces Amygdalar Responses to Negative Pictures.

Key Points

Implication

Abstract

Discussion

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