The ability to remember associations (e.g., a person’s face with his/her name) is an important aspect of healthy memory function. Emotional arousal (particularly negative emotion such as fear or anger) is known to disrupt ...

Both the parietal and ventral temporal cortices (VTC) have been implicated in representing externally perceived information and information retrieved from memory. However, while the VTC represents visual features of stimuli, ...

Studies show that emotion enhances memory for individual items but weakens memory for associations between items. One explanation for this associative memory impairment is that emotional stimuli capture attention, causing ...