Valence Effects on Episodic Memory in Young and Old Adults Following Exposure to Emotional Stimuli.

ABSTRACT: Episodic memory benefits from arousal, with better retrieval linked to arousing to-be-remembered information. Arousal's impact on subsequent memory processes, particularly for nonarousing stimuli, remains unclear. Healthy ageing is associated with emotion regulation changes and declines in episodic memory, which may influence how arousal affects memory processes. This functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study examined the effects of valence on episodic memory in young and old adults, focusing on memory of neutral information following arousal exposure. Neural activity was assessed at three time points: during exposure to arousing and nonarousing images, encoding of neutral videos following image exposure, retrieval of the encoded videos. We hypothesised that valence would induce d

SUBMITTER: Constantinou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11875107 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature