Multiple routes to enhanced memory for emotionally relevant events

N Rouhani, Y Niv, MJ Frank, L Schwabe - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Events associated with aversive or rewarding outcomes are prioritized in memory. This
memory boost is commonly attributed to the elicited affective response, closely linked to …

Declining locus coeruleus–dopaminergic and noradrenergic modulation of long-term memory in aging and Alzheimer's disease

MJ Dahl, A Kulesza, M Werkle-Bergner… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Memory is essential in defining our identity by guiding behavior based on past experiences.
However, aging leads to declining memory, disrupting older adult's lives. Memories are …

Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory

N Rouhani, D Stanley… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
How do collective events shape how we remember our lives? We leveraged advances in
natural language processing as well as a rich, longitudinal assessment of 1,000 Americans …

The reach of reactivation: Effects of consciously triggered versus unconsciously triggered reactivation of associative memory

A Tal, E Schechtman, B Caughran… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Consolidating memories for long-term storage depends on reactivation. Reactivation occurs
both consciously, during wakefulness, and unconsciously, during wakefulness and sleep …

Emotion in the mind's eye: Imagination for adaptive cognition

CM Cocquyt, DJ Palombo - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In a complex world, we are constantly faced with environmental stimuli that shape our
moment‐to‐moment experiences. But just as rich and complex as the external world is the …

Pavlovian safety learning: An integrative theoretical review

PAF Laing, B Vervliet, JE Dunsmoor… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Safety learning involves associating stimuli with the absence of threats, enabling the
inhibition of fear and anxiety. Despite growing interest in psychology, psychiatry, and …

Prediction error and event segmentation in episodic memory

S Nolden, G Turan, B Güler, E Günseli - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
Organizing the continuous flow of experiences into meaningful events is a crucial
prerequisite for episodic memory. Prediction error and event segmentation both play …

States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts

NE Keller, C Salvi, EK Leiker, MJ Gruber… - npj Science of …, 2024 - nature.com
Curiosity can be a powerful motivator to learn and retain new information. Evidence shows
that high states of curiosity elicited by a specific source (ie, a trivia question) can promote …

Reconciling opposing effects of emotion on relational memory: Behavioral, eye-tracking, and brain imaging investigations.

PC Bogdan, F Dolcos, Y Katsumi… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The effects of emotion on memory are wide-ranging and powerful, but they are not uniform.
Although there is agreement that emotion enhances memory for individual items, how it …

Aerobic exercise after extinction learning reduces return of fear and enhances memory of items encoded during extinction learning

KM Crombie, A Azar, C Botsford, M Heilicher… - Mental health and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fear conditioning paradigms are widely used in laboratory settings to discover treatments
that enhance memory consolidation and various fear processes (extinction learning, limit …