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·May 25, 2025·4 min read

The Nature of Nostalgia: How Time Transforms Emotion in Memory

New research reveals that nostalgic memories don’t remain emotionally static, they evolve over time. While these memories are typically rich in positive feelings at the time they occur, those feelings tend to fade, making space for rising negative emotions like regret and loneliness.

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·May 18, 2025·4 min read

How Music Can Emotionally Reshape Your Memories

A new neuroscience study reveals that music can alter the emotional content of our memories when played during recollection. Participants who listened to emotionally charged music while recalling neutral stories later remembered those stories with emotional tones matching the music.

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·December 12, 2024·4 min read

Emotional Memory Cells Driving Empathy Discovered

Researchers have uncovered a brain mechanism in the prefrontal cortex that determines how animals respond to others’ emotions based on their own past experiences. These neurons, producing corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), act as emotional memories, modulating responses to socio-emotional stimuli.

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·October 6, 2022·3 min read

A New Function of the Cerebellum

The cerebellum plays a key role in the storage of both positive and negative memories of emotional events.

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·July 7, 2019·5 min read

Scientists may soon be able to predict your memories

Using a mathematical model, researchers uncover the effects of emotion in memory encoding. They hope the data can be used to predict which experiences a person is most likely to recall.

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·August 22, 2018·5 min read

Naps Plus Sleep Enhances Emotional Memory in Early Childhood

Summary: According to researchers, naps in combination with overnight sleep may work together to benefit emotional memory consolidation in young...

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·June 15, 2018·5 min read

When Emotional Memories Intrude, Focusing on Context Could Help

A new study reveals focusing attention to the context of a memory, rather than the emotional aspects, increases activity in brain regions associated with executive function and attention.

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·December 26, 2016·3 min read

Is There Such A Thing As An Emotional Hangover?

Researchers report emotional experiences can influence memory and physiological states for an extended period of time. Additionally, non emotional experiences that follow emotional ones can are remembered some time later.

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·December 13, 2016·3 min read

Sleep Helps Process Traumatic Experiences

A new study reveals sleep could be used as an early prevention strategy against PTSD.

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·November 14, 2016·4 min read

The Power of Expectation Can Restrain Hyper-Emotional Memories in the Brain

Researchers have identified a brain circuit that provides emotional memory tuning in rats.

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·July 14, 2016·4 min read

Specialized Neurons in Brain Area Associated with Emotional Memory Play Role in Fear

According to a new study, fear memory encoding is influences by parvalbumin interneurons in the amygdala.

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·August 27, 2014·5 min read

Changing the Emotional Association of Memories

A new study reports researchers have been able to alter the emotional association of specific memories by manipulating neural circuits in mouse brains.

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emotional memory

The Nature of Nostalgia: How Time Transforms Emotion in Memory

How Music Can Emotionally Reshape Your Memories

Emotional Memory Cells Driving Empathy Discovered

A New Function of the Cerebellum

Scientists may soon be able to predict your memories

Naps Plus Sleep Enhances Emotional Memory in Early Childhood

When Emotional Memories Intrude, Focusing on Context Could Help

Is There Such A Thing As An Emotional Hangover?

Sleep Helps Process Traumatic Experiences

The Power of Expectation Can Restrain Hyper-Emotional Memories in the Brain

Specialized Neurons in Brain Area Associated with Emotional Memory Play Role in Fear

Changing the Emotional Association of Memories

Brain Criticality May Hold Key to Learning, Memory, and Alzheimer’s

One Gene Rewires Fear Circuits and Fuels Anxiety

Exercise Proven to Boost Kids’ Mental Health

Sleep Learning: How Synapses Strengthen While We Rest

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