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

A new study using direct recordings from human brains reveals how the amygdala and hippocampus coordinate to form and retrieve emotional memories.

A single dose of lamotrigine, a drug often prescribed to prevent depressive episodes in people with bipolar disorder, was ...

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 ...

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

Bogdan, P. C., et al. (2024) Reconciling opposing effects of emotion on relational memory: Behavioral, eye-tracking, and brain imaging investigations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General ...

"There isn't a meaningful limit to how much information the brain can store," said Elizabeth Kensinger, a professor of ...

A young girl with headphones on. deagreez – stock.adobe.com They developed a 3-day episodic memory task with separate encoding, recollection, and retrieval phases to get to their primary hypothesis.