Stress impacts the fidelity but not strength of emotional memories.

ABSTRACT: Psychological stress during memory encoding influences resulting memory representations. However, open questions remain regarding how stress interacts with emotional memory. This interaction has mainly been studied by characterizing the correct identification of previously observed material (memory "hits"), with few studies investigating how stress influences the endorsement of unobserved material as remembered (memory "false alarms"). While hits can provide information about the presence or strength of a memory representation, false alarms provide insight into memory fidelity, indicating to what extent stored memories are confused with similar information presented at retrieval. This study examined the effects of stress on long-term memory for negative and neutral images, considering the

SUBMITTER: Shermohammed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6435439 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature