ABSTRACT
How the mind stores experience is an intensely studied issue in psychology and neuroscience. Students in both disciplines once entertained the idea of locating a brain region responsible for storing information of all sorts. Nowadays memory is no longer conceived as a monolithic mental faculty. Instead, it contains subsystems for encoding, storing, and operating information of different kinds. Two major types of memory have been proposed – declarative (explicit) and non-declarative (implicit); each of them is further divided into subcategories. Specific learning tasks have been designed to assess different forms of memory. Among them, memory of emotional events, often denoted as affective memory, attracts much attention in the mundane and scientific world due to its critical roles in adaptive and non-adaptive behavior as well as its rapid acquisition, long-lasting retention, and ready retrieval.
