Emotional events are remembered better than neutral events, and this emotion advantage
becomes particularly pronounced over time. The time-dependent effects of emotion impact …

Though emotion conveys memory benefits, it does not enhance memory equally for all
aspects of an experience, nor for all types of emotional events. In this review, I outline the …

Our everyday surroundings besiege us with information. The battle is for a share of our
limited attention and memory, with the brain selecting the winners and discarding the losers …

Individuals are more likely to remember negative information than neutral information. In the
experiments reported here, we examined whether individuals were also more likely to …

Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Child: Domains, Methods, and Case Studies, Second
Edition, is an updated and expanded desk reference that retains the first edition's …

Functional imaging studies consistently find that emotional stimuli activate the posterior
cingulate cortex, a region that appears to have memory‐related functions. However, prior …

Binding various features of an event together and maintaining these connections in memory
is an essential component of episodic memories. Previous theories make contradictory …

In long-term memory, negative information is better remembered than neutral information.
Differences in processes important to working memory may contribute to this emotional …

Emotion may influence memory both by altering attention and perception during encoding
and by affecting memory retention. To date, studies have focused on the enhancement of …

Two different types of trade-offs have been discussed with regard to memory for emotional
information: A trade-off in the ability to remember the gist versus the visual detail of …