Why does a comforting touch stay with us for years, while other sensations quickly fade from our minds? A new paper offers a novel answer, proposing the first comprehensive neurobiological model of ...

The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) refers to the tendency for the emotional intensity associated with unpleasant autobiographical events to decay more rapidly over time than that linked to pleasant events.

Emotional experiences clearly affect memory. At the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy many people shared their memories of where they were when they heard the news that he had ...

Summary: A revolutionary, cross-disciplinary study will attempt to decode how intense human emotions distort and reshape our memory. The pioneering project, titled Quantum Emotions, marks a bold ...

Faul, L. & Kensinger , E.A. (accepted). Emotional memory. Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 3rd Edition. Elsevier. Garcia, S.M. & Kensinger, E.A ...

Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember past experiences. It's different than anterograde amnesia, which is the inability to form new memories. Types of retrograde amnesia have different ...