Emotional arousal influences remembrance of goal-relevant stimuli.

Emotion ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1357-1368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Jia ◽  
Chuanji Gao ◽  
Yujuan Wang ◽  
Meng Han ◽  
Lixia Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Arousal

Positive Arousal Enhances the Consolidation of Item Memory

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Memory Consolidation ◽  
Source Memory ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Memory Test ◽  
Learning Phase ◽  
Item Memory ◽  
Memory Tests ◽  
Immediate Memory

Emotional arousal induced after learning has been shown to modulate memory consolidation. However, it is unclear whether the effect of postlearning arousal can extend to different aspects of memory. This study examined the effect of postlearning positive arousal on both item memory and source memory. Participants learned a list of neutral words and took an immediate memory test. Then they watched a positive or a neutral videoclip and took delayed memory tests after either 25 minutes or 1 week had elapsed after the learning phase. In both delay conditions, positive arousal enhanced consolidation of item memory as measured by overall recognition. Furthermore, positive arousal enhanced consolidation of familiarity but not recollection. However, positive arousal appeared to have no effect on consolidation of source memory. These findings have implications for building theoretical models of the effect of emotional arousal on consolidation of episodic memory and for applying postlearning emotional arousal as a technique of memory intervention.

Sex Differences in Vivid Memories

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Hedy White
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Emotional Arousal ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Vivid Memories

There has been little previous research on sex differences in the content and affective evaluations of vivid autobiographical memories. Using a paradigm similar to Rubin and Kozin [1], subjects in Experiment 1 described and evaluated their most vivid personal memory and subjects in Experiment 2 described both their most vivid pleasant and unpleasant memory. Males were more likely than females to report memories having competence themes (in each experiment) and females were more likely than males to report memories involving dating (in Experiment 2). Also, in each experiment females reported experiencing greater emotional arousal than males while writing their descriptions, but sex differences in reported emotional arousal at the time the described event occurred were reduced and not reliable. In Experiment 1, which required subjects to report only their one most vivid memory, both sexes were more likely to describe an unpleasant memory than a pleasant one.

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