ReviewCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2017
Differential effects of negative emotion on memory for items and associations, and their relationship to intrusive imagery.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotion enhances relative but not absolute temporal memory: A meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
- Intrusive memories of trauma: A target for research bridging cognitive science and its clinical application.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Structural white matter changes in adults and children with posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Pooled it
- Drawbacks to Strengthening Neural Salience Encoding: A Link Between Cortisol and Risky Drinking.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Trial
- Treating intrusive memories after trauma in healthcare workers: a Bayesian adaptive randomised trial developing an imagery-competing task intervention.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Simultaneous manipulation of emotion and working memory load distorts temporal distance memory.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Anxiety, stress, and affective modulation on object-location memory: A systematic review in virtual environments.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Effect of emotion on hippocampal-dependent associative binding through the lens of the weather prediction task.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- The temporal organization of memory and emotion is reciprocally coupled.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Anger impacts face memory and face - object memory differently in children and adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Differences in the effect of emotional context of different Emotion-Inducing methods on target memory performance.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Spatial encoding of a traumatic virtual reality scene reduces intrusive memories.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural Patterns Reflect Shared Emotional History.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Acute normobaric hypoxia as a reversible probe of oxygen-limitation contributions to cognitive aging.Aging brain · 2026Review
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- Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol.Science advances · 2025Article
- Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Targeting memory of embedded positive verbal content indirectly modulates negative visual memory.iScience · 2025Article
- Key concepts, methods, findings, and questions about traumatic memories.Journal of traumatic stress · 2025Review
- Associative memory for honest and dishonest faces in younger and older adults.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
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Abstract
A crucial aspect of episodic memory formation is the way in which our experiences are stored within a coherent spatio-temporal context. We review research that highlights how the experience of a negative event can alter memory encoding in a complex manner, strengthening negative items but weakening associations with other items and the surrounding context. Recent evidence suggests that these opposing effects can occur through amygdala up-modulation to facilitate item encoding, while the hippocampal provision of contextual binding is down-modulated. We consider how these characteristics of memory for negative events might contribute to the development and maintenance of distressing intrusive imagery in posttraumatic stress disorder, and how they should influence therapeutic interventions.
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