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EMOTION
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 191-199Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.2.191
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH45584, R01 MH61549] Funding Source: Medline
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Emotionally charged materials have been found to elicit higher levels of recall in many studies. However, the use of slow presentations and/or uncontrolled retention intervals may have allowed subjects to rehearse emotional materials preferentially. The authors presented a series of 5 pictures (I emotionally charged) at a rate of 4 pictures per second, precluding selective rehearsal. In Experiment 1, subjects recalled the pictures immediately or after performing an arithmetic task for 20 s. In Experiment 2, the pictures were described as to-be-ignored distractois, and the memory test was unexpected. Stimulus emotionality greatly enhanced recall in all conditions. The speed of the presentations and the fact that enhancement did not spread to temporally adjacent items argues against some widely discussed mechanisms for emotional enhancement.
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