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