ArticleFrontiers in psychology2012
Motivation matters: differing effects of pre-goal and post-goal emotions on attention and memory.
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- Positive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Myths of trauma memory: on the oversimplification of effects of attention narrowing under stress.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- The detrimental effects of delay on the endorsement of misleading details for emotionally salient events.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Relationship Between Item and Source Memory: Explanation of Connection-Strength Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Locus Coeruleus Activity Strengthens Prioritized Memories Under Arousal.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Does Cognitive Broadening Reduce Anger?Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Neural activity underlying motor-action preparation and cognitive narrowing in approach-motivated goal states.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2016Article
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- Current research and emerging directions in emotion-cognition interactions.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
People often show enhanced memory for information that is central to emotional events and impaired memory for peripheral details. The intensity of arousal elicited by an emotional event is commonly held to be the mechanism underlying memory narrowing, with the implication that all sources of emotional arousal should have comparable effects. Discrete emotions differ in their effects on memory, however, with some emotions broadening rather than narrowing the range of information attended to and remembered. Thus, features of emotion other than arousal appear to play a critical role in memory narrowing. We review theory and research on emotional memory narrowing and argue that motivation matters. Recent evidence suggests that emotions experienced prior to goal attainment or loss lead to memory narrowing whereas emotions experienced after goal attainment or loss broaden the range of information encoded in memory. The motivational component of emotion is an important but understudied feature that can help to clarify the conditions under which emotions enhance and impair attention and memory.
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