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 …

Research on cognitive aging has focused on how decline in various cortical and
hippocampal regions influence cognition. However, brainstem regions play essential …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research convened a meeting of researchers in the
fields of neuroscience, psychology, engineering, and medicine to discuss most pressing …

Although aging is associated with clear declines in physical and cognitive processes,
emotional functioning fares relatively well. Consistent with this behavioral profile, two core …

Curiosity is a fundamental part of human motivation that supports a variety of human
intellectual behaviors ranging from early learning in children to scientific discovery …

The locus coeruleus (LC) is the principal origin of noradrenaline in the brain. LC integrity
varies considerably across healthy older individuals, and is suggested to contribute to …

Recent models posit that bursts of locus ceruleus (LC) activity amplify neural gain such that
limited attention and encoding resources focus even more on prioritized mental …

Building upon the existing literature on emotional memory, the present review examines
emerging evidence from brain imaging investigations regarding four research directions:(1) …

The influence of emotion on association-memory is often attributed to arousal, but negative
stimuli are typically used to test for these effects. While prior studies of negative emotion on …