Ulrike Rimmele
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Psychology Section
Group name: Emotion and Memory
Domains: Affective and Social Neurosciences, Attention and Cognition
Keywords: brain imaging, Emotion, memory
Research activities
Can you remember receiving your high school diploma, your first kiss?
Very likely you are not only able to remember these emotional events, but you also picture them very vividly in your mind.
Emotions have a profound impact on what we keep in mind and make us re-experience events vividly in our memory. Why is this the case? Our central research questions are:
How do emotion and stress influence how memories are formed and retrieved?
How do emotion and stress modulate learning and memory processes across the life span?
How can we modify the emotion’s influence on learning and memory processes?
Our lab addresses these questions with an innovative combination of scientific methods including behavioral paradigms, immersive virtual reality, stressors, psychophysiology, pharmacology and brain imaging in children, adolescents, young, middle- aged and older adults.
Latest publications
Pharmacologically increased cortisol levels impair recall of associative background context memory in males, but not females.
Quarreling After a Sleepless Night: Preliminary Evidence of the Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Interpersonal Conflict.
In Older Adults, Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy Are Associated with Verbal Fluency, Reasoning, and Prospective Memory (Moderated by Socioeconomic Position).
Does older adults' cognition particularly suffer from stress? A systematic review of acute stress effects on cognition in older age.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Ulrike.Rimmele@unige.ch