ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2014
Hearing something emotional influences memory for what was just seen: How arousal amplifies effects of competition in memory consolidation.
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- Noradrenergic mechanisms of arousal's bidirectional effects on episodic memory.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2017Trial
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- Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2021Article
- The role of emotion arousal in the retrieval practice effect.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Emotional arousal amplifies competitions across goal-relevant representation: A neurocomputational framework.Cognition · 2019Article
- Arousal amplifies biased competition between high and low priority memories more in women than in men: The role of elevated noradrenergic activity.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2017Article
- GANEing traction: The broad applicability of NE hotspots to diverse cognitive and arousal phenomena.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2016Article
- Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2016Article
- Encoding of goal-relevant stimuli is strengthened by emotional arousal in memory.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Enhanced memory for emotional items often comes at the cost of memory for the background scenes. Because emotional foreground items both induce arousal and attract attention, it is not clear whether the emotion effects are simply the result of shifts in visual attention during encoding or whether arousal has effects beyond simple attention capture. In the current study, participants viewed a series of scenes that each either had a foreground object or did not have one, and then, after each image, heard either an emotionally arousing negative sound or a neutral sound. After a 24-hr delay, they returned for a memory test for the objects and scenes. Postencoding arousal decreased recognition memory of scenes shown behind superimposed objects but not memory of scenes shown alone. These findings support the hypothesis that arousal amplifies the effects of competition between mental representations, influencing memory consolidation of currently active representations.
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