Physiological arousal affects attention and memory, sometimes enhancing and other times
impairing what we attend to and remember. In the present study, we investigated how …

The arousal-biased competition theory posits that inducing arousal increases attentional
priority of salient stimuli while reducing priority of non-pertinent stimuli. However, unlike in …

Background: Understanding the neurobiological substrates of psychiatric disorders requires
comprehensive evaluations of cognitive and motivational functions in preclinical research …

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The expansion of knowledge propagates significant
cultural change within the average lifespan, and knowledge currency is brief. Extended …

Emotional stimuli are processed differently in memory with respect to neutral stimuli;
because they are more distinct, salient, and biologically significant. Episodic memory is …

Discussions of age differences in attention often start with the heuristic that older adults
show reductions in top-down, goal-driven controlled attention compared to young adults, but …

Aging affects brain circuitry involved in both inhibition and arousal. In this study, we tested
whether older adults are more or less prone to distraction from emotionally arousing events …

With advancing age, humans' ability to filter out relevant pieces of information and maintain
them over extended periods wanes. In the brain, the preferential processing of relevant …