Memory and Emotion: Remembering Traumatic Events and Embodied Experiences

Why do we remember emotional experiences better than mundane experiences? Why do we remember core features of emotional memories, while we forget peripheral details? Memory and Emotion: Remembering Traumatic Events and Embodied Experiences explores how we remember life experiences and how the emotions we experience at different times in our lives enhance or impair our memory. Khan examines the effects of traumatic events on memory and emotion, focusing on the partition of British India in 1947 and, 54 years later, September 11. She also examines the relationship between embodiment, memory, and emotion and discusses how embodied affect enhances memory retrieval.