Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including
perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a …

The ability to recognize a previously experienced stimulus is supported by two processes:
recollection of the stimulus in the context of other information associated with the …

Emotional events often attain a privileged status in memory. Cognitive neuroscientists have
begun to elucidate the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying emotional …

Traditional approaches to the study of cognition emphasize an information-processing view
that has generally excluded emotion. In contrast, the recent emergence of cognitive …

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity
to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus …

The contribution of the parietal cortex to episodic memory is a fascinating scientific puzzle.
On the one hand, parietal lesions do not normally yield severe episodic-memory deficits; on …

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) plays a crucial role in supporting memory for events, but the
functional organization of regions in the MTL remains controversial, especially regarding the …

The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

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 …

Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as
imagining the past. In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of …