Intrusive memories of a traumatic event can be distressing and disruptive, and comprise a
core clinical feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Intrusive memories involve …

Contextual learning is a critical component of episodic memory and important for living in
any environment. Context can be described as the attributes of a location that are not the …

Remembering life episodes is a complex process that requires interaction among multiple
brain areas. It is thought that contextual information provided by the hippocampus (HPC) can …

Memories about stressful experiences need to be both specific and generalizable to
adequately guide future behavior. Memory strength is influenced by emotional significance …

Environmental information plays an important role in remembering events. Information about
stable aspects of the environment (here referred to as 'context') and the event are combined …

Nonhuman primates provide highly valuable animal models that have significantly
advanced our understanding of numerous behavioral and biological phenomena in …

Abstract Information processing under stressful circumstances depends on many
experimental conditions, like the information valence or the point in time at which brain …

Memory contextualization is vital for the subsequent retrieval of relevant memories in
specific situations and is a critical dimension of social cognition. The inability to properly …

Context shapes our perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions. We
interpret a person's face in a hostile situation negatively and judge the same face under …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is known to be critical for specific forms of long-term
recognition memory, however the cellular mechanisms in the mPFC that underpin memory …