New paper out in Biological Psychology

Check out our latest paper, "The impact of threat of shock on memory for threat-irrelevant information: Evidence for a role of reduced semantic organization", which is now out in the journal Biological Psychology!

Led by graduate student Felicia Chaisson, we provide evidence that acute anxiety can not only reduce the amount of information that is encoded into memory, but it can also alter the way that memories are organized. Specifically, we demonstrate that information encoded in a state of heightened anxiety has less semantic structure than information encoded in a non-anxious state, and that reduced semantic-organizational processing can mediate the relation between the physiological effects of anxiety (e.g., increase skin conductance) and reduced subsequent memory for information encoded in an anxious state.