Children's recall of emotionally arousing, repeated events: a review and call for further investigation.

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Children's recall of emotionally arousing, repeated events: A review and call for further investigation

Consistency of memory for emotionally arousing events: a review of prospective and experimental studies.

Although emotionally arousing events are more memorable than ordinary daily life events, the nature of memories for emotionally arousing events is widely debated. On the one hand, researchers consider memories for highly emotional events as malleable and subject to distortion, while on the other hand these memories are perceived as both indelible and consistent over the lifetime. Up till now, a...

Sex-related hemispheric lateralization of amygdala function in emotionally influenced memory: an FMRI investigation.

The amygdala appears necessary for enhanced long-term memory associated with emotionally arousing events. Recent brain imaging investigations support this view and indicate a sex-related hemispheric lateralization exists in the amygdala relationship to memory for emotional material. This study confirms and further explores this finding. Healthy men and women underwent functional Magnetic Resona...

Enhanced memory for emotional material following stress-level cortisol treatment in humans.

Memory tends to be better for emotionally arousing information than for neutral information. Evidence from animal studies indicates that corticosteroids may be necessary for this memory enhancement to occur. We extend these findings to human memory performance. Following administration of cortisol (20 mg) or placebo, participants were exposed to pictures varying in emotional arousal. Incidental...

Emotional Hormones and Memory Modulation

Emotionally arousing experiences are generally well remembered. We know that from our own experiences as well as from extensive research findings. Memories of automobile accidents, fires, muggings, rapes, wartime battles, terrorists’ bombings, and other intensely emotional experiences are often reported as being ‘deeply etched in the brain.’ We also remember significant details of special occas...