BNS Meeting 2026

Dr. Deborah Talmi recently presented a talk at the British Neuropsychological Society (BNS) 2026 Spring Meeting. 

Her presentation, titled “Laboratory Tests of the Dual Representation Account of Memory for Trauma,” outlined a series of studies conducted by the Emotional Cognition Lab examining how negative emotional experiences influence memory processes.  

Drawing on behavioural experiments based on the Weather Prediction Task and Trauma Film Paradigm, Dr. Talmi presented evidence that negative emotion does not reliably impair voluntary associative memory. These findings go against predictions of the Dual Representation Account and align instead with unitary accounts of emotional memory, such as the eCMR. 

To find out more about this topic, see our recent publication in Cognitive Affective and Behavioural Neuroscience:

de Montpellier, E., Bernhard, H., Henson, R. et al. Effect of emotion on hippocampal-dependent associative binding through the lens of the weather prediction task. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01371-4