Aesthetic experience enhances first-person spatial representation.

Episodic autobiographical memories are characterized by a spatial context and an affective component. But how do affective and spatial aspects interact? Does affect modulate the way we encode the spatial context of events? We investigated how one element of affect, namely aesthetic liking, modulates memory for location, in three online experiments ( = 124, 79, and 80). Participants visited a professionally curated virtual art exhibition.