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13 - Emotion and Memory

from Part II - Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

By
Elizabeth A. Kensinger ,
Jaclyn Ford  and
Ryan T. Daley
Edited by
Ayanna K. Thomas  and
Angela Gutchess
Ayanna K. Thomas
Affiliation:
Tufts University, Massachusetts
Angela Gutchess
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
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Summary

Emotional experiences are often more likely than neutral experiences to be remembered, or to be retrieved richly. In this chapter, we provide an overview of how the effects of emotion arise, emphasizing the effects that operate during the initial experience of the event (encoding), the storage and stabilization of the memory trace for that experience (consolidation), and the accessing of that trace (retrieval). We discuss how these effects of emotion can explain both why emotion enhances many aspects of memory throughout the adult life span and also why there are often age-by-valence interactions in memory, with older adults remembering information more positively than younger adults.

Keywords

arousalautobiographical memoryconsolidationemotionemotion regulationencodingflashbulb memoryfMRIphenomenologyprioritization signalresting stateretrievalsleepsocioemotionalstoragevalence
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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
A Life Course Perspective
 , pp. 236 - 253
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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