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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Memory Research
  • Emotional Memory

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  • Memory's primary function is predicting significant events.
  • The impact of threat memories on associative inference remains understudied.

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  • To investigate how threat memories affect the ability to infer indirect associations.
  • To explore the relationship between emotional arousal and memory updating.

Main Methods:

  • Participants encoded neutral predictive associations (A→B).
  • Memories were reactivated with aversive or neutral outcomes (B→CTHREAT/NEUTRAL), measuring pupil dilation.
  • Indirect association accuracy (A→C?) was tested 24 hours later.

Main Results:

  • Associative inferences involving threat memories were impaired.
  • Initial memories (A→B) were retroactively strengthened.
  • Pupil dilation did not moderate these effects.

Conclusions:

  • Healthy memory systems may compartmentalize threat information, hindering indirect recall.
  • Impaired compartmentalization may link negative events to benign memories, contributing to anxiety and intrusions.