ArticlePloS one2013
Effects of pre-encoding stress on brain correlates associated with the long-term memory for emotional scenes.
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- The effects of acute stress on episodic memory: A meta-analysis and integrative review.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
- Perceptual Richness of Retrieval Cues Enhances Memory for Emotional and Neutral Natural Scenes.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhances Emotional Processing and Long-Term Recognition Memory: Electrophysiological Evidence Across Two Studies.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Opposing effects of pre-encoding stress on neural substrates of item and emotional contextual source memory retrieval.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- When stress enhances memory encoding: The beneficial effects of changing context.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2023Article
- Stress enhances emotional memory-related theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
- Establishment of Emotional Memories Is Mediated by Vagal Nerve Activation: Evidence from Noninvasive taVNS.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Enhancing memory with stress: Progress, challenges, and opportunities.Brain and cognition · 2019Review
- Binding neutral information to emotional contexts: Brain dynamics of long-term recognition memory.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Recent animal and human research indicates that stress around the time of encoding enhances long-term memory for emotionally arousing events but neural evidence remains unclear. In the present study we used the ERP old/new effect to investigate brain dynamics underlying the long-term effects of acute pre-encoding stress on memory for emotional and neutral scenes. Participants were exposed either to the Socially Evaluated Cold Pressure Test (SECPT) or a warm water control procedure before viewing 30 unpleasant, 30 neutral and 30 pleasant pictures. Two weeks after encoding, recognition memory was tested using 90 old and 90 new pictures. Emotional pictures were better recognized than neutral pictures in both groups and related to an enhanced centro-parietal ERP old/new difference (400-800 ms) during recognition, which suggests better recollection. Most interestingly, pre-encoding stress exposure specifically increased the ERP old/new-effect for emotional (unpleasant) pictures, but not for neutral pictures. These enhanced ERP/old new differences for emotional (unpleasant) scenes were particularly pronounced for those participants who reported high levels of stress during the SECPT. The results suggest that acute pre-encoding stress specifically strengthens brain signals of emotional memories, substantiating a facilitating role of stress on memory for emotional scenes.
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