FIGURE 3 | Sex differences in the relationship between amygdala activity during emotional experiences and memory for those experiences.

Extensive evidence indicates that the amygdala modulates memory storage for emotionally arousing events. However, findings from several studies now demonstrate sex differences in the relationship between amygdala activity during emotional experiences and memory for those experiences. As illustrated here, activity in the right hemisphere amygdala while viewing emotionally arousing images is more significantly related to subsequent memory for the images in men than it is in women (a), whereas the converse is true for the left hemisphere amygdala (b). The reasons for this hemispheric laterality, and what it means for the qualities of memories for emotional events in men and women, are now important areas of study. Reproduced, with permission, from Ref. 41 © (2004) Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press.

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