emotional memory
Affect-laden recollection
Emotional memory is the recall of feelings associated with past experiences, often triggered by sensory cues or similar situations.
The term appears in psychology, where it describes how emotions become encoded with events, and in acting technique, where performers draw on personal emotional experiences to create authentic portrayals: She used emotional memory to access the grief her character needed.
- amygdalaEmotion-processing brain cluster
- scentAirborne odor detected
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- childhood homeEarly-life dwelling place
- limbic systemEmotional brain structures
reconsolidation · madeleine · hippocampus · method acting · trauma recovery · catharsis · tear jerker · heart strings · gut feeling · Proust · prefrontal cortex · sentimentality · mindfulness practices · déjà vu · touch · vivid · sensory · flashback
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- emotion scienceaffect, valence, constructionism, feeling, mixed emotions
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- implicit memorypriming, conditioning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, habituation
emotional memoryrote memory
Recall through repetition alone
encyclopedic knowledge · procedural memory · data retention · working memory · short-term memory