Arnaud D’Argembeau

Remembering how events unfold: Emotion and memory consolidation for naturalistic events

Although emotional content is known to strengthen memory consolidation, its influence on how the unfolding of events is retained over time has received little attention. Building on the finding that negative events are remembered with less temporal compression and richer detail t...

Temporal compression of naturalistic events in episodic memory: Effects of environmental familiarity and action involvement

Episodic memories are temporally compressed summaries of past experience, with the degree of compression varying with event characteristics. This study examined how two such characteristics—environmental familiarity and action involvement—influence temporal compression, objective...