About the author

Larry Cahill

Larry Cahill is an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and a Fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California (UC), Irvine, USA. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, in 1984, and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC, Irvine in 1990. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms by which emotional arousal influences memory formation.