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EMOTION
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 5-11Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.1.1.5
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH48757] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS17778] Funding Source: Medline
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The influence of emotional stimuli on source memory was investigated by using emotionally valenced words. The words were colored blue or yellow (Experiment 1) or surrounded by a blue or yellow frame (Experiment 2). Participants were asked to associate the words with the colors. In both experiments, emotionally valenced words elicited enhanced free recall compared with nonvalenced words; however, recognition memory was not affected. Source memory for the associated color was also enhanced for emotional words, suggesting that even memory for contextual information is benefited by emotional stimuli. This effect was not due to the ease of semantic clustering of emotional words because semantically related words were not associated with enhanced source memory, despite enhanced recall (Experiment 3). It is suggested that enhancement resulted from facilitated arousal or attention, which may act to increase organization processes important for source memory.
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