Emotion, Stress, and Memory
Chapters and Reviews
Gruber, M.J. & Ritchey, M. (2020). Episodic memory modulation: How emotion and motivation shape the encoding and storage of salient memories. In M.S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (6th ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Kensinger EA & Fields EC (in press). Affective memory. In M. J. Kahana & A. D. Wagner (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kensinger EA, & Ford JH. (2020). Retrieval of Emotional Events from Memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 71, 251-272.
Samide, R., & Ritchey, M. (in press). Reframing the past: Role of memory processes in emotion regulation. Cognitive Therapy and Research, doi:10.1007/s10608-020-10166-5.
Relevant Studies
Bowen HJ, Fields EC, & Kensinger EA. (2019). Prior emotional context modulates early event-related potentials to neutral retrieval cues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(11), 1755-1767.
Bowen HJ, Marchesi ML, & Kensinger EA (2020). Reward motivation influences response bias on a recognition memory task. Cognition, 203, 104337.
Hamamouche, K.*, Niemi, L.* & Cordes, S. (2017). Quantifying a threat: Evidence of a numeric processing bias. Acta Psychologica, 177, 1-9. (*equal contribution)
Kim SY, Kark SM, Daley RT, Alger SE, Rebouças D, Kensinger EA, & Payne JD. (2020). Interactive effects of stress reactivity and rapid eye movement sleep theta activity on emotional memory formation. Hippocampus, 30(8), 829-841.
Lewis, E., Zax, A. & Cordes, S. (2017). The impact of emotion on numerical estimation: A developmental perspective. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-36.
Ritchey, M., McCullough, A.M., Ranganath, C., & Yonelinas, A.P. (2017). Stress as a mnemonic filter: Interactions between medial temporal lobe encoding processes and post-encoding stress. Hippocampus, 27 (1), 77-88.
Ritchey, M., Wang, S.-F., Yonelinas, A.P., & Ranganath, C. (2019). Dissociable medial temporal pathways for encoding emotional item and context information. Neuropsychologia, 124, 66-78.