ArticleCognition2019
Emotional arousal amplifies competitions across goal-relevant representation: A neurocomputational framework.
Article in Cognition, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The effect of emotional arousal on visual attentional performance: a systematic review.Psychological research · 2024Pooled it
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- Update on "Emotion and autobiographical memory": 14 years of advances in understanding functions, constructions, and consequences.Physics of life reviews · 2024Review
- Eye movements reveal age differences in how arousal modulates saliency priority but not attention processing speed.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Explicitly predicting outcomes enhances learning of expectancy-violating information.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- The effects of task-irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting- and executive attentional processes under cognitive load.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2022Article
- Green Supply Chain Optimization Based on BP Neural Network.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2022Article
- Music Emotion Analysis Based on PSO-BP Neural Network and Big Data Analysis.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Emotional arousal often facilitates memory for some aspects of an event while impairing memory for other aspects of the same event. Across three experiments, we found that emotional arousal amplifies competition among goal-relevant representations, such that arousal impairs memory for multiple goal-relevant representations while enhancing memory for solo goal-relevant information. We also present a computational model to explain the mechanisms by which emotional arousal can modulate memory in opposite ways via the local/synaptic-level noradrenergic system. The model is based on neurophysiological observations that norepinephrine (NE) released under emotional arousal is locally controlled by glutamate levels, resulting in different NE effects across regions, gating either long-term potentiation or long-term depression by activating different adrenergic receptors depending on NE concentration levels. This model successfully replicated behavioral findings from the three experiments. These findings suggest that the NE's local effects are key in determining the effects of emotion on memory.
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