SynthesisPsychological bulletin2019
The impact of affective information on working memory: A pair of meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Neural correlates of emotional working memory predict depression and anxiety.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- A human working memory advantage for social network information.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Sustaining attention in affective contexts during adolescence: age-related differences and association with elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety.Cognition & emotion · 2024Article
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Abstract
Everyday life is defined by goal states that are continuously reprioritized based on available, often affective information. To pursue these goals, individuals need to process and maintain goal-relevant information, while ignoring potentially salient information that distracts resources from these goals. Empirically, this ability has typically been operationalized as working memory (WM) capacity. A growing body of research is investigating the impact of information's affective salience on WM capacity. In the present review we address this question by exploring the potential differential impact of affective compared with neutral information on WM, and the underlying neural substrates. One-hundred and 65 studies (
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