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

Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a
critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there …

In contrast to long-held axioms of old age as a time of “doom and gloom,” mounting
evidence indicates an age-related positivity effect in attention and memory. However …

Our everyday surroundings besiege us with information. The battle is for a share of our
limited attention and memory, with the brain selecting the winners and discarding the losers …

In the present study, we investigated whether context is routinely encoded during emotion
perception. For the first time, we show that people remember the context more often when …

Research suggests that sleep benefits memory. Moreover, it is often claimed that sleep
selectively benefits memory for emotionally salient information over neutral information …

Emotional memories are vivid and lasting but not necessarily accurate. Under some
conditions, emotion even increases people's susceptibility to false memories. This review …

After information is encoded into memory, it undergoes an off-line period of consolidation
that may occur optimally during sleep. The consolidation process not only solidifies …

When people encounter emotional events, their memory for those events is typically
enhanced. But it has been unclear how emotionally arousing events influence memory for …

Individuals report remembering emotional items vividly. It is debated whether this report
reflects enhanced memory accuracy or a bias to believe emotional memories are vivid. We …