How does an intense event change what we remember about the rest of our day?
Our recent study (N=285) challenges the idea of a uniform emotional memory boost. We found that individuals split into two distinct modes of organizing threat-relevant information.🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Episodic memory organizes continuous experience into discrete events, often limiting integration across temporal gaps. Emotionally salient experiences, such as learning about threats, may nevertheless...
