Table 2.

Factors influencing whether acute stress enhances memory

Key factor	Memory enhanced if…	For further reading
Stressor
Dosage	Moderate (not very low or high)	Sandi and Pinelo-Nava (2007)
Timing (relative to encoding)	Close to encoding	Diamond et al. (2007)
Timing (memory phase)	Prior to consolidation	Roozendaal (2002)
Stress ligand receptor	MR	Vogel, Fernandez, Joels, and Schwabe (2016)
Learned information
Emotional content of memoranda	Emotionally salient	Roozendaal et al. (2009)
Relationship to stressor	Related	Joels et al. (2006)
Participant
Sex	Varied (depends on oral contraceptives and menstrual phase)	Merz and Wolf (2017)