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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 ...

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 ...

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.