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

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 ...

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

A new study explored how the hippocampus and insula interact during the encoding of emotional memories in humans.

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

Image Credit: Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock.com During memory consolidations, amygdala-hippocampal connections affect emotional memory through various processes, including neuromodulatory effects.

Although emotion can give weight to specific memories, it does not necessarily improve memory across the board. In fact, the very emotion that locks in one memory can often wash out others.

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

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It may be the smell of freshly baked cookies or the scent of a campfire that triggers a flood of memories and emotions. This is because scent has a stronger link to memory ...