The memory-improving action of glucose has now been studied for almost 20 years and the
study of this phenomenon has led to a number of important developments in the …

The brain relies upon glucose as its primary fuel. In recent years, a rich literature has
developed from both human and animal studies indicating that increases in circulating blood …

To determine whether child maltreatment has a long-term impact on emotion processing
abilities in adulthood and whether IQ, psychopathology, or psychopathy mediate the …

In this chapter, we discuss the development and use of picture stimuli incorporated in the
International Affective Picture System (IAPS, pronounced “eye-aps”; Lang, Bradley, & …

Memory for emotional items is often better than memory for neutral items. In three
experiments, we examined whether this typical finding is due to the higher semantic …

Examining the positive and negative pictures separately revealed that emotionally
enhanced memory (EEM) for positive pictures was mediated by attention, with no significant …

Easterbrook's (1959) cue-utilization theory has been widely used to explain the inverted U-
shaped relationship, initially established by Yerkes and Dodson, between emotional arousal …

Facial expressions of emotion in humans are believed to be produced by contracting one's
facial muscles, generally called action units. However, the surface of the face is also …

Flashbulb memories for the fall of the Berlin Wall were examined among 103 East and West
Germans who considered the event as either highly positive or highly negative. The …

The experimental study reported here investigated information processing of broadcast
news at the intersection of audience gender (male versus female) and message valence …