A new study suggests that recalling the context in which a memory was made can help to restore the memory after it has started to erode.

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience finds that people retain information better when they learn in a ...

The story [of] emotion-memory interactions is still unfolding. We demonstrated the circumstances where you can prevent forgetting contextual details, ...

Emotion affects the formation of a memory because emotions are both physiologically and cognitively arousing. This arousal activates the amygdala and the hippocampus, both of which are involved in ...

Emotion enhances memory for contextual details, report researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

Study: Awake ripples enhance emotional memory encoding in the human brain.Image Credit: Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock.com. During memory consolidations, amygdala-hippocampal connections affect ...