Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory

Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan

was published by Psychology Press in December, 2008.

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Emotion & memory accuracy

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Memory in aging & age-related disease

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Kensinger EA & Choi ES (in press). Hemispheric processing and the visual specificity of emotional memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Payne JD, Stickgold R, Swanberg K, & Kensinger EA (in press). Sleep and memory consolidation for complex emotional scenes. Psychological Science. pdf

Mickley KR & Kensinger EA (2008). Neural processes supporting subsequent recollection and familiarity of emotional items. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 143-152. pdf

Garoff-Eaton RJ, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). The neural correlates of conceptual and perceptual false recognition. Learning and Memory, 14, 684-692. pdf

Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). How negative emotion enhances the visual specificity of a memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1872-1887. pdf

Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 62, 208-215. pdf

Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Remembering the specific visual details of presented objects: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2951-2962. pdf

Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory specificity: Memory trade-offs elicited by negative visually arousing stimuli. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 575-591. pdf

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). When the Red Sox shocked the Yankees: Comparing negative and positive memories. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 757-763. pdf

Kensinger EA, and Schacter DL (2006). Neural processes underlying memory attribution on a reality-monitoring task. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1126-1133. pdf

Budson AE, Todman RW, Chong H, Adams EH, Kensinger EA, Krandl TS & Wright CI (2006). False recognition of emotional word lists in aging and Alzheimer's disease. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19, 71-78. pdf

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Reality monitoring and memory distortion: Effects of negative, arousing content. Memory and Cognition, 34, 251-260.

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Amygdala activity is associated with the successful encoding of item, but not source, information for positive and negative stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 2564-2570. pdf

Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, and Schacter DL (2006). Memory for specific visual details can be enhanced by negative arousing content. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 99-112. pdf

Gallo DA, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2006). Prefrontal activity and diagnostic monitoring of memory retrieval: fMRI of the criterial recollection task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 135-148. pdf

Kensinger EA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2006). Memories of an emotional and a nonemotional event: Effects of aging and delay interval. Experimental Aging Research, 32, 23-45. pdf

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2005). Retrieving accurate and distorted memories: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion. NeuroImage, 27, 167-177. pdf

Kensinger EA, and Schacter DL (2005). Emotional content and reality-monitoring ability: FMRI evidence for the influence of encoding processes. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1429-1443. pdf

Kensinger EA, Piguet O, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2005). Memory for contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging. Psychology and Aging, 20, 241-250. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). The effects of emotional content and aging on false memories. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 1-9. pdf

Kensinger EA (in press). Remembering the details: Effects of emotion. Emotion Review.

Kensinger EA (in press). What factors need to be considered to understand emotional memories? Emotion Review.

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (in press). Memory and Emotion. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones and L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion, 3^rd Edition. New York: Guilford. pdf

Kensinger EA (2007). Negative emotion enhances memory accuracy: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 213-218. pdf

Schacter DL, Gallo DA, & Kensinger EA (2007). The cognitive neuroscience of implicit and false memories: Perspectives on processing specificity. In J.S. Naime (Ed.) The foundations of remembering: Essays honoring Henry L. Roediger III (pp. 353-377). New York: Psychology Press. pdf

Kensinger EA & Choi ES (in press). Hemispheric processing and the visual specificity of emotional memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Kensinger EA (2008). Age differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P13-18. pdf

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2006). Processing emotional pictures and words: Effects of valence and arousal. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 110-126. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). Two routes to emotional memory: Distinct processes for valence and arousal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101, 3310-3315. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words? Memory and Cognition, 31, 1169-1180. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effects of negative emotional content on working memory and long-term memory. Emotion, 3, 378-393. pdf

Kensinger EA, Clarke RJ, & Corkin S (2003). The neural processes underlying successful encoding and retrieval: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study using a divided attention paradigm. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 2407-2415. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2003). Effect of divided attention on the memory benefit for negative as compared to neutral words. Brain and Cognition, 51, 223-225. pdf

Kensinger EA (in press). Remembering the details: Effects of emotion. Emotion Review.

Kensinger EA (in press). What factors need to be considered to understand emotional memories? Emotion Review.

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2008). Memory and Emotion. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones and L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion, 3^rd Edition. New York: Guilford. pdf

Kensinger EA (2006). Neuroimaging the formation and retrieval of emotional memories. To appear in Brain Mapping: New Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pdf

Kensinger EA (2004). Remembering emotional experiences: The contribution of valence and arousal. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 15, 241-251. pdf

Kensinger EA (2008). Age differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing emotional words. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P13-18. pdf

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (2008). Neural processes supporting young and older adults' emotional memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1161-1173. pdf

Kensinger EA, O'Brien J, Swanberg K, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). The effects of emotional content on reality-monitoring performance in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 22, 752-764. pdf

Kensinger EA, Gutchess AH, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of aging and encoding instructions on emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Psychology and Aging, 22, 781-795. pdf

Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, Yoon C, & Schacter DL (2007). Ageing and the self-reference effect in memory. Memory, 15, 822-837. pdf

Kensinger EA, Garoff-Eaton RJ, & Schacter DL (2007). Effects of emotion on memory specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62, 208-215. pdf

Kensinger EA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2006). Memories of an emotional and a nonemotional event: Effects of aging and delay interval. Experimental Aging Research, 32, 23-45. pdf

Kensinger EA, Piguet O, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2005). Memory for contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging. Psychology and Aging, 20, 241-250. pdf

Kensinger EA, & Corkin S (2004). The effects of emotional content and aging on false memories. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 1-9. pdf

Kensinger EA, Anderson A, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2004). Effects of Alzheimer disease on memory for verbal emotional information. Neuropsychologia, 42, 791-800. pdf

Kensinger EA, Shearer DK, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2003). Working memory in mild Alzheimer’s disease and early Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 17, 230-239. pdf

Kensinger EA, Brierley B, Medford N, Growdon JH, & Corkin S (2002). The effect of normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease on emotional memory. Emotion, 2, 118-134. pdf

Kensinger EA & Schacter DL (1999). When true memories suppress false memories: Effects of aging. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 399-415. pdf

Kensinger EA (2008). How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details. Memory, Jul 4, 1-12 [Epub ahead of print]. pdf

Kensinger EA (in press). Cognition in aging and age-related disease. In L.R. Squire (Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford: Elsevier Press. pdf

Kensinger EA (2006). Remembering emotional information: effects of aging and Alzheimer's disease. Progress in Alzheimer's Disease Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin S (2004). Cognition in Aging and Age-Related Disease. In Adelman G and Smith BH (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Web, CD-Rom)New York: Elsevier Press. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Neural Changes in Aging. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd. pdf

Kensinger EA & Corkin (2003). Alzheimer's Disease. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillian, Ltd. pdf

Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA (2008). Effects of age on detection of emotional information. Psychology and Aging, 23, 209-215. pdf

Leclerc CM & Kensinger EA (2008). Age-related differences in medial prefrontal activation in response to emotional images. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 153-164. pdf

Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, Yoon C, & Schacter DL (2007). Ageing and the self-reference effect in memory. Memory, 15, 822-837. pdf

Gutchess AH, Kensinger EA, & Schacter DL (2007). Aging, self-referencing, and medial prefrontal cortex. Social Neuroscience, 2, 117-133. pdf

Skotko B, Kensinger EA, Locascio JJ, Einstein JG, Rubin DC, Tupler LA, Krendl AC, & Corkin S (2004). Puzzling thoughts for H.M.: Can new semantic memories be anchored to old semantic memories? Neuropsychology, 18, 756-769. pdf

O'Kane G*, Kensinger EA*, & Corkin S (2004). Evidence for semantic learning in amnesia: A study with the amnesic patient H.M. Hippocampus, 14, 417-425. (*equal authorship) pdf

Siri S, Kensinger EA, Cappa SF, Hood KL, & Corkin S (2003). Questioning the living-nonliving dichotomy: Evidence from a patient with an unusual semantic dissociation. Neuropsychology, 17, 630-645. pdf

Kensinger EA (in press). Cognition in aging and age-related disease. In L.R. Squire (Ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford: Elsevier Press. pdf

Kensinger EA (in press). Phases of influence: How emotion modulates the formation and retrieval of declarative memories. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences IV. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kensinger EA (in press). Remembering the details: Effects of emotion. Emotion Review.

Kensinger EA (in press). What factors need to be considered to understand emotional memories? Emotion Review.

Kensinger EA & Choi ES (in press). Hemispheric processing and the visual specificity of emotional memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Kensinger EA & Leclerc CM (in press). Age-related changes in the neural mechanisms supporting emotion processing and emotional memory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.

Mickley KR, Muscatell KA, & Kensinger EA (in press). Using the RSVP paradigm to investigate the processes contributing to emotional memory. Brain and Cognition.

Waring JD, Payne JD, Schacter DL, & Kensinger EA (in press). Impact of individual differences upon emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Cognition and Emotion.

Kensinger EA & Corkin (2008). Amnesia: Point and Counterpoint. In R. Menzel (Ed.), Learning Theory and Behavior, Vol. 1 of Learning and Memory - A Comprehensive Reference, 4 vols. (J. Byrne, Ed.). Oxford: Elsevier Press. (pp. 259-286). pdf

Kensinger EA (2008). How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details. Memory, 17, 1-12. pdf