We rely on our long-term memories to guide future behaviors, making it adaptive to prioritize
the retention of goal-relevant, salient information in memory. In this review, we discuss …

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

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

A hallmark feature of episodic memory is that of “mental time travel,” whereby an individual
feels they have returned to a prior moment in time. Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience …

Autobiographical memory encompasses our recollections of specific, personal events. In this
article, we review the interactions between emotion and autobiographical memory, focusing …

Focusing primarily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this article reviews
evidence regarding the roles of subregions of the medial temporal lobes, prefrontal cortex …

Complex dynamic behaviour involves reciprocal influences between emotion and cognition.
On the one hand, emotion is a “double-edged sword” that may affect various aspects of our …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

A survey study and two experiments were done to test the hypothesis that social flow is more
enjoyable than solitary flow. In the survey study it was found that recalled social flow …

Over the past decade, fMRI techniques have been increasingly used to interrogate the
neural correlates of successful emotional memory encoding. These investigations have …