Negative emotion enhances mnemonic precision and subjective feelings of remembering in visual long-term memory

Volume: 166, Pages: 73 - 83
Published: Sep 1, 2017
Abstract
Negative emotion sometimes enhances memory (higher accuracy and/or vividness, e.g., flashbulb memories). The present study investigates whether it is the qualitative (precision) or quantitative (the probability of successful retrieval) aspect of memory that drives these effects. In a visual long-term memory task, observers memorized colors (Experiment 1a) or orientations (Experiment 1b) of sequentially presented everyday objects under negative,...
Paper Details
Title
Negative emotion enhances mnemonic precision and subjective feelings of remembering in visual long-term memory
Published Date
Sep 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
166
Pages
73 - 83
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