Emotional events often attain a privileged status in memory. Cognitive neuroscientists have
begun to elucidate the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying emotional�…

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

A highly adaptive aspect of human memory is the enhancement of explicit, consciously
accessible memory for emotional stimuli. Recent findings from neuroimaging�…

Neurobiological accounts of emotional memory have been derived largely from animal
models investigating the encoding and retention of memories for events that signal threat�…

Building upon the existing literature on emotional memory, the present review examines
emerging evidence from brain imaging investigations regarding four research directions:(1)�…

The amygdala has long been known to play a key role in supporting memory for emotionally
arousing experiences. For example, classical fear conditioning depends on neural plasticity�…

It is now well established that emotion enhances episodic memory. However, it remains
unclear whether the same neural processes underlie enhancement of memory for both�…

The memory-enhancing effect of emotion can be powerful and long-lasting. Most studies
investigating the neural bases of this phenomenon have focused on encoding and early�…

Emotion is known to influence multiple aspects of memory formation, including the initial
encoding of the memory trace and its consolidation over time. However, the neural�…

What are the neural markers of encoding and retrieving emotional events with increased
efficacy? In recent years, this question has captured the attention of cognitive neuroscientists�…