Pleasant or aversive events are better remembered than neutral events. Emotional enhancement of episodic memory has been linked to the amygdala in animal and neuropsychological studies. Using positron ...

With the development of functional neuroimaging, there has been increasing interest in the neural systems responsible for long-term memory encoding 1,2. In early studies that used blocked designs, the ...

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...