Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7300415 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Stressful experiences are often well remembered, an effect that has been explained by beta-adrenergic influences on memory consolidation. Here, we studied the impact of stress induced heart rate (HR) responses on memory consolidation in a post-learning stress paradigm. 206 male and female participants saw 52 happy and angry faces immediately before being exposed to the Cold Pressor Test or a non-stressful control procedure. Memory for the faces and their respective expression was tested twice, after 30Â min and on the next day. High HR responders (in comparison to low HR responders as well as to the non-stressful control group) showed enhanced recognition memory one day after learning. Our results show that beta-adrenergic activation elicited shortly after learning enhances memory consolidation and that the stress induced HR response is a predictor for this effect.
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Authors
Mauro F. Larra, André Schulz, Thomas M. Schilling, Diana S. Ferreira de Sá, Daniel Best, Bartlomiej Kozik, Hartmut Schächinger,