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

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

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.

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

Our recently published research uncovered intriguing connections between music, emotion and memory. Specifically, listening to music can change how you feel about what you remember — potentially ...

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.