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 …

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

Although forgetting is the common fate of most of our experiences, much evidence indicates
that emotional arousal enhances the storage of memories, thus serving to create, selectively …

Although the concept of memory has existed for thousands of years, its systematic study was
launched in the 1880s by the seminal experiments of the German philosopher Hermann …

With rapid aging of the population worldwide, the number of people with dementia is
dramatically increasing. Some studies have emphasized that metabolic syndrome, which …

The present study examined whether positive or negative valence affects the amount of
detail remembered about a public event, and whether positive or negative valence alters …

To examine how emotional content affects the amount of visual detail remembered, we had
young and older adults study neutral, negative, and positive objects. At retrieval, they …

Emotionally arousing experiences are usually well retained, an effect that depends on the
release of adrenal stress hormones. Animal studies have shown that corticosterone and …

Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one
critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response …

Background/Study Context: Destination memory, remembering the destination of the
information that one tells, shows significant age-related decline. In the present paper, the …