Ratings of emotional autobiographical memories from patients with damage to the hippocampus + amygdala (HC+), hippocampus only (HC), brain-damaged comparison (BDC), and normal comparison (NC) participants. HC+ participants rated their unpleasant memories as lower on intensity, vividness, significance, and novelty compared with the other participant groups. From “Emotional Autobiographical Memories in Amnesic Patients With Medial Temporal Lobe Damage,” by T. W. Buchanan, D. Tranel, and R. Adolphs, 2005, Journal of Neuroscience, 25, p. 3156. Copyright 2005 by the Society for Neuroscience. Reprinted with permission.