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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

How do emotions influence memory? In a collaboration between Hangzhou Normal University and Nanjing Normal University, Xi Jia led a study to explore whether emotions shape how well people remember ...

"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.