Mental hoop diaries: emotional memories of a college basketball game in rival fans.
Abstract
The rivalry between the men's basketball teams of Duke University and the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) is one of the most storied traditions in college
sports. A subculture of students at each university form social bonds with fellow
fans, develop expertise in college basketball rules, team statistics, and individual
players, and self-identify as a member of a fan group. The present study capitalized
on the high personal investment of these fans and the strong affective tenor of a
Duke-UNC basketball game to examine the neural correlates of emotional memory retrieval
for a complex sporting event. Male fans watched a competitive, archived game in a
social setting. During a subsequent functional magnetic resonance imaging session,
participants viewed video clips depicting individual plays of the game that ended
with the ball being released toward the basket. For each play, participants recalled
whether or not the shot went into the basket. Hemodynamic signal changes time locked
to correct memory decisions were analyzed as a function of emotional intensity and
valence, according to the fan's perspective. Results showed intensity-modulated retrieval
activity in midline cortical structures, sensorimotor cortex, the striatum, and the
medial temporal lobe, including the amygdala. Positively valent memories specifically
recruited processing in dorsal frontoparietal regions, and additional activity in
the insula and medial temporal lobe for positively valent shots recalled with high
confidence. This novel paradigm reveals how brain regions implicated in emotion, memory
retrieval, visuomotor imagery, and social cognition contribute to the recollection
of specific plays in the mind of a sports fan.
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Journal articleSubject
BasketballCerebral Cortex
Emotions
Humans
Imagination
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Mental Recall
Young Adult
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10074Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2481-09.2010Publication Info
Botzung, Anne; Rubin, David C; Miles, Amanda; Cabeza, Roberto; & Labar, Kevin S (2010). Mental hoop diaries: emotional memories of a college basketball game in rival fans.
J Neurosci, 30(6). pp. 2130-2137. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2481-09.2010. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10074.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Roberto Cabeza
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
My laboratory investigates the neural correlates of memory and cognition in young
and older adults using fMRI. We have three main lines of research: First, we distinguish
the neural correlates of various episodic memory processes. For example, we have compared
encoding vs. retrieval, item vs. source memory, recall vs. recognition, true vs. false
memory, and emotional vs. nonemotional memory. We are particularly interested in the
contribution of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and medial temporal lobe (M
Kevin S. LaBar
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
My research focuses on understanding how emotional events modulate cognitive processes
in the human brain. We aim to identify brain regions that encode the emotional properties
of sensory stimuli, and to show how these regions interact with neural systems supporting
social cognition, executive control, and learning and memory. To achieve this goal,
we use a variety of cognitive neuroscience techniques in human subject populations.
These include psychophysiological monitoring, functional magnetic
David C. Rubin
Juanita M. Kreps Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
For .pdfs of all publications click here My main research interest has been in
long-term memory, especially for complex (or "real-world") stimuli. This work includes
the study of autobiographical memory and oral tra
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