While we sit around refreshing twitter, here is something new to read. Our preprint showing emotional learning retroactively enhances item memory, but distorts source attribution. Hopefully advancing the behavioral tagging story. https://psyarxiv.com/g4ktq/  @gus_hennings @jalewpea

The tl;dr--we replicate our previous finding that Pavlovian fear conditioning selectively and retroactively enhances episodic memory for conceptually related items. But we show here that this is accompanied by a false memory that these items were encoded DURING fear conditioning.

In the framework of behavioral tagging: memory attribution was biased to the temporal context of the stronger event (fear conditioning) that provided the putative source of memory stabilization for the weaker event (non-emotional learning).

Conditioning also selectively and retroactively enhanced stimulus typicality for conceptually related exemplars. Typicality also predicted memory overall. So perhaps conditioning makes items encoded close in time more representative of their category, making them memorable.