Oversimplification in the Study of Emotional Memory

Bennion, Kelly A.; Ford, Jaclyn H.; Murray, Brendan D.; Kensinger, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1017/s1355617713000945

Cited by 78 publications

(79 citation statements)

References 83 publications

(77 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In the present study, we did not observe an emotional enhancement effect on memory accuracy (or recollection); rather, neutral pictures were actually better recognized than negative or positive pictures-a pattern that is sometimes observed (for review see Bennion, Ford, Murray, & Kensinger, 2013). The atypical pattern of emotional enhancement in memory does not affect interpretation of the overall reductions in accuracy and quality of memory in bvFTD, but may have contributed to the lack of the predicted reduction in memory for negative pictures in the patients when compared to controls.…”

Section: Limitationssupporting

confidence: 55%

Emotional evaluation and memory in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Jacques¹,

Grady²,

Davidson³

et al. 2014

Neurocase

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) affects emotional evaluation, but less is known regarding patients' ability to remember emotional stimuli. (ere, bvFTD patients and age-matched controls studied positive, negative and neutral pictures followed by a recognition memory test. Compared to controls, bvFTD patients showed a reduction in emotional evaluation of negative scenes, but not of positive or neutral scenes. Additionally, the patients showed an overall reduction in recognition memory accuracy, due to impaired recollection in the face of relatively preserved familiarity. These results show that bvFTD reduces emotional evaluation of negative scenes and impairs overall recognition memory accuracy and recollection.

show abstract

Section: Limitationssupporting

confidence: 55%

Emotional evaluation and memory in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Jacques¹,

Grady²,

Davidson³

et al. 2014

Neurocase

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The HC activation limited to specific familiarity suggests a link with emotional content of familiar stimuli. This hypothesis is notably supported by the observation that memory performances are better for emotional events, when compared with neutral events (Bennion, Ford, Murray, & Kensinger, 2013;Buchanan, 2007). More accurately, amygdala activation has been shown to prioritize memories (Bennion et al, 2013), and this improvement in memory depends on interactions between the amygdala and the HC (Buchanan, 2007;Phelps, 2004).…”

Section: Activations Related To Specific Familiaritymentioning

confidence: 83%

The multiple neural networks of familiarity: A meta-analysis of functional imaging studies

Hörn

Jardri

D’Hondt

et al. 2015

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent research has demonstrated the critical role of the feeling of familiarity in recognition memory. Various neuroimaging paradigms have been developed to identify the brain regions that sustain the processing of familiarity; however, there is still considerable controversy about the functional significance of each brain region implicated in familiaritybased retrieval. Here, we focused on the differences between paradigms that assess familiarity, with or without the encoding phase. We used the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) algorithm to conduct a whole-brain meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies that involved a familiarity task. Sixty-nine studies, performed in healthy subjects to determine the specific functions of the identified regions in familiarity processing, were finally selected. Distinct subanalyses were performed according to the experimental procedures used in the original studies. The ALE clusters that were highlighted revealed common activations for paradigms with and without encoding in the prefrontal cortex and in the parietal cortex. Additionally, supplementary activations related to specific familiarity (i.e., without the encoding phase) were observed in the limbic system (i.e., the amygdala, hippocampus, cingulate cortex, and insula) and in the associative sensory areas. The differences in the reported findings for different procedures are possibly due to differences in the concept of familiarity. To aid the exploration of the neural correlates of familiarity in future studies, the strengths and weaknesses of these experimental procedures are critically discussed.

show abstract

“…The distinction is meaningful because experimental induction of some dimensions of emotions, like arousal, is likely to be irrelevant to the task and may lead to variable performance, whereas integral arousal can sometimes be adaptive for performance (Bennion, Ford, Murray, & Kensinger, 2013). In general, though, not enough research has examined the effects of emotions on reading comprehension and textbased knowledge revision (Bohn-Gettler & Rapp, 2014;Sinatra & Seyranian, 2016).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision: A Potential Account for the Backfire Effect

Trevors

Muis

Pekrun

et al. 2016

Discourse Processes

107

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent research has shown that for some topics, messages to refute and revise misconceptions may backfire. The current research offers one possible account for this backfire effect (i.e., the ironic strengthening of belief in erroneous information after an attempted refutation) from an educational psychology perspective and examines whether emotions mediate the relationship between self-concept and learning from refutation texts. In an experimental design, 120 undergraduate students responded to a questionnaire focused on their dietary self-concept and were randomly assigned to read an expository or refutation text on the topic of genetically modified foods. Immediately after reading, participants self-reported their emotions followed by completing post-test measures of their knowledge and attitudes of the topic. Results showed an interaction between self-concept and text condition on emotions wherein self-concept predicted negative emotions (i.e., confusion, anxiety, frustration) while reading a refutation text specifically. Further, negative emotions significantly mediated relations between self-concept and post-test knowledge and attitudes. Implications for educational design and future research are discussed.

show abstract

Oversimplification in the Study of Emotional Memory

Cited by 78 publications

References 83 publications

Emotional evaluation and memory in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Emotional evaluation and memory in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

The multiple neural networks of familiarity: A meta-analysis of functional imaging studies

Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision: A Potential Account for the Backfire Effect

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About