Effect of Negative Emotional Content on Working Memory and Long-Term Memory
Effect of Negative Emotional Content on Working Memory and Long-Term Memory
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DOI：
10.1037/1528-3542.3.4.378
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Corkin, Suzanne
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作者：
Kensinger, Elizabeth A.;Corkin, Suzanne
在长期记忆中，负面信息比中性信息更容易记住。对工作记忆重要的过程的不同可能有助于这种情绪记忆的增强。为了检验刺激的情绪内容对工作记忆表现的影响，作者要求参与者在负面和中性刺激下执行工作记忆任务。任务的准确性不受刺激的情绪内容的影响。消极和中性词汇的反应时间也没有差异，但在使用面孔的n-back任务中，参与者对恐惧面孔的反应慢于对中性面孔的反应。这些结果表明，尽管情绪内容对工作记忆没有明显的影响，但在某些情况下，情绪突显会阻碍工作记忆的表现。
In long-term memory, negative information is better remembered than neutral information. Differences in processes important to working memory may contribute to this emotional memory enhancement. To examine the effect that the emotional content of stimuli has on working memory performance, the authors asked participants to perform working memory tasks with negative and neutral stimuli. Task accuracy was unaffected by the emotional content of the stimuli. Reaction times also did not differ for negative relative to neutral words, but on an n-back task using faces, participants were slower to respond to fearful faces than to neutral faces. These results suggest that although emotional content does not have a robust effect on working memory, in some instances emotional salience can impede working memory performance.