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In experimental psychopathology research, the use of anticipatory fear cues (threat of shock) has proven to be a valuable methodology for inducing emotional arousal in healthy subjects. The "threat of scream" paradigm represents an extension of this methodology (Beaurenaut, M., Tokarski, E., Dezecache, G. et al., 2020) and is suitable for the study of cognitive processes under emotional arousal. In the present study, an online version of the threat of scream paradigm will be used to investigate the role of emotional activation in episodic memory. In episodic memory, memories of specific events (what) are stored in a spatial (where) and temporal (when) context (Tulving, 2002). The episodic memory task was created following an already established and frequently used virtual reality task (Zlomuzica et al., 2015; 2018) in which de novo events are presented. The present study aims to investigate how the different conditions in the threat of scream paradigm (anticipation of aversive sounds versus anticipation of no sounds) affect encoding in a computer-based episodic memory task. The sample includes healthy (no presence of acute or chronic neurological and/or mental illness) adults up to 50 years of age with corrected or normal vision. The study will take place online via the Qualtrics software.