Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion

Kensinger, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1177/1754073908100432

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“…However, these basic claims can be simplified into two realms of thought: one suggesting preferential selection of emotional items over neutral items, due to greater attentional resources allocated to these items (Kensinger, 2009;Mather, 2007), in conjunction with other factors or alone (i.e., within-object binding, distinctiveness, etc. ), and another suggesting more efficient organizational strategies utilized by the participants due to the enhanced relational nature of emotional words (Doerksen & Shimamura, 2001;Talmi & Moscovitch, 2004).…”

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“…Each of these explanations has a different prediction concerning its influence on the search process. According to these models, if emotion serves to focus attention on the individual item (Kensinger, 2009;Mather, 2007), we would expect to see a preference for these stronger emotional items to be initially sampled over neutral items, in accordance to the relative strength rule (i.e., stronger items on a list of varying relative strengths will be more likely to be initially sampled, as compared with weaker items; Raaijmakers & Shiffrin, 1980). Alternatively, if emotionality serves to strengthen itemto-item associations and elicit more efficient organizational strategies, we would expect an increase in the probability of subsequent sampling.…”

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Investigating the role of emotion during the search process in free recall

Siddiqui

Unsworth

2011

Mem Cogn

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Typically, research has shown that emotional words are remembered better than neutral words; however, most studies have reported only the mean proportion of correctly recalled words. The present study looked at various dependent measures used by search models to determine whether emotion can influence the search process as well. The results from Experiment 2 showed that when emotionality was made salient, participants were able to utilize emotional associations, in addition to temporal associations, to cue retrieval of additional emotional words during subsequent sampling but relied mainly on temporal context when the emotional information was not made salient (Experiment 1). Additionally, both experiments showed that emotional words were more likely to be output earlier in the recall sequence, which would suggest that emotion also serves to boost relative strength during initial sampling. Overall, the results suggest that emotion contributes to enhanced memory dynamically by influencing the probability of sampling an item during the search process-specifically, by boosting relative strength and strengthening interitem associations.

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Section: Emotional Enhancement Of Memorymentioning

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Section: Emotional Enhancement Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the role of emotion during the search process in free recall

Siddiqui

Unsworth

2011

Mem Cogn

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“…It has been shown that people are more likely to pay attention to, remember, and learn from situations that elicit emotional reactions, than from those that do not (Holland & Kensinger, 2010;Kensinger, 2009;Reisberg & Heuer, 2004). Positive emotions have been shown to be associated with elevated dopamine levels in the brain, which improves cognitive flexibility and attention, as well as long-term and working memory functioning, all of which are important for learning (Ashby, Isen, & Turken, 1999).…”

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Stimulating positive emotional experiences in mathematics learning: influence of situational and personal factors

2014

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in European Journal of Psychology of Education. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. The study aims to assess the relative importance of a large number of variables for predicting students' positive activating emotions during mathematics learning. Participants were 668 firstyear upper secondary school students from 33 schools of different sizes and locations. Two questionnaires were distributed, one assessing students' perceptions and beliefs about their learning situation in mathematics in general, and the other assessing the characteristics of a particular mathematics lesson and the students' emotional experiences during this lesson. Singleconstruct and multivariate models for predicting students' emotions were computed. The results show that the multivariate models were the most efficient, predicting as much as 59% of the variance in students' emotional experiences. The two most important constructs were students' type of motivation and perceived degree of learning, which together predicted 48% of the students' emotions. Single-construct models predicted, at most, 36%. The relative and absolute predictive ability of different motivational constructs are reported. The relationships between constructs and their implications for teaching are discussed.

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“…Through extensive interactions with cortical and other subcortical areas, the AG also modulates attention and perception (Adolphs et al, 2005;Pitkänen et al, 2000;Sah et al, 2003). Of particular interest is the AG's involvement in processing of emotionally relevant stimuli and encoding of emotionally salient memories (Dolcos et al, 2004;Kensinger, 2009;LeDoux and Schiller, 2009;Murty et al, 2010;Sergerie et al, 2008;Shafer and Dolcos, 2012).…”

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Amygdala subnuclei response and connectivity during emotional processing

Hrybouski

Aghamohammadi‐Sereshki

Madan

et al. 2016

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The involvement of the human amygdala in emotion-related processing has been studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for many years. However, despite the amygdala being comprised of several subnuclei, most studies investigated the role of the entire amygdala in processing of emotions. Here we combined a novel anatomical tracing protocol with eventrelated high-resolution fMRI acquisition to study the responsiveness of the amygdala subnuclei to negative emotional stimuli and to examine intra-amygdala functional connectivity. The greatest sensitivity to negative emotional stimuli was observed in the centromedial amygdala, where the hemodynamic response amplitude elicited by negative emotional stimuli was greater and peaked later than for neutral stimuli. Connectivity patterns converge with extant findings in animals, such that the strongest connectivity was between the lateral nucleus and the nuclei of the basal amygdala. Current findings provide evidence of functional specialization within the human amygdala.

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Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion

Cited by 670 publications

References 139 publications

Investigating the role of emotion during the search process in free recall

Investigating the role of emotion during the search process in free recall

Stimulating positive emotional experiences in mathematics learning: influence of situational and personal factors

Amygdala subnuclei response and connectivity during emotional processing

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