Although humans have a remarkable capacity to recall a wealth of detail from the past, there
are marked interindividual differences in the quantity and quality of our mnemonic …

Emotionally arousing events reach awareness more easily and evoke greater visual cortex
activation than more mundane events. Recent studies have shown that they are also …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

These findings have implications for understanding and assessing affective biases in
perception and attention in patients with psychiatric disorders, such as phobias, depression …

Visual selective attention is the process by which we tune ourselves to the world so that, of
the millions of bits per second transmitted by the retina, the information that is most important …

Recent advances in our understanding of information states in the human brain have
opened a new window into the brain's representation of emotion. While emotion was once …

We tend to re-live emotional experiences more richly in memory than more mundane
experiences. According to one recent neurocognitive model of emotional memory, negative …

Sensitivity to environmental context has been of interest for many years, but the nature of
individual differences in environmental sensitivity has become of particular focus over the …

Emotionally salient aspects of the world are experienced with greater perceptual vividness
than mundane ones; however, such emotionally enhanced vividness (EEV) may be …