Dirk Schümann

TL;DR: The individual emotional enhancement of memory is not stable or that it cannot be measured reliably with the standard emotional memory paradigm, which is highly replicable on the group level and very low on the individual level.

TL;DR: Bilateral amygdala activity, as well as its coupling with the visual cortex and the fusiform gyrus, was related to the preferential encoding of emotional stimuli, which is consistent with affect-biased attention, and the adrenoceptor genotype modulated the bilateral amygdala activity associated with this effect.

TL;DR: To investigate whether the amygdala and noradrenergic system support memory encoding and consolidation via shared neural substrates and processes a large sample of participants encoded neutral and arousing pictures and memory for negative and positive emotional pictures was enhanced at both time points where these enhancements were correlated.

TL;DR: Bilateral amygdala activity, as well as its coupling with the visual cortex and the fusiform gyrus, was related to the preferential encoding of emotional stimuli, which is consistent with affect-biased attention, and the adrenoceptor genotype modulated the bilateral amygdala activity associated with this effect.