Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory

Cognition & Emotion, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 9

Published: Feb. 25, 2025

Extensive research has revealed enhanced attention and memory for emotional relative to neutral content. Amongst information, valence effects can also arise: negative information often is preferentially attended remembered positive although the opposite effect occur. Little examined how in relate memory. This open question we addressed this study, by tracking eye gaze of 53 participants (ages 18–64) while they viewed scenes composed an (positive or negative) object superimposed on a context then tested their next day. Emotional objects were gazed at longer recognised better than objects. objects, there was different memory: recognition These not modulated age, attentional mnemonic correlated. results suggest dissociation mechanisms supporting

Language: Английский

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Enhanced recognition memory for emotional nonverbal sounds

Memory, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 13

Published: March 5, 2025

Emotion often enhances memory for emotional stimuli relative to neutral stimuli. This enhancement effect has been studied extensively with visual and verbal stimuli, yet little is known regarding emotion's effects on nonverbal (or environmental) sounds, such as dog snarls infant cries. Additionally, enhancing recognition are selective recollection (recognition contextual retrieval) rather than familiarity based strength), but whether this also the case sounds unknown. We examined negative predicting that would be enhanced specific recollection. Participants incidentally encoded was tested a remember-familiar task after 15-minute delay. As predicted, better higher versus lower arousal These findings suggest key aspects of extend sounds. discuss how current theories which focus can extended accommodate auditory

Language: Английский

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Emotion and motion: superior memory for emotional but not for moving stimuli

Psychological Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 89(2)

Published: March 24, 2025

Abstract Two effects on memory have been described in the literature: emotional enhancement of (EEM) (i.e., an stimulus is better remembered than a neutral stimulus) and dynamic superiority effect (DSE) moving visual static stimulus). However, DSE has previously only studied using complex stimuli (e.g., video clips). Thus, first objective present study was to examine whether will be observed with simple isolated stimuli). The second people’s affected by motion. We conducted three experiments, two free recall task, Experiment 1A (online) 1B (in-person), one recognition task (in-person). Participants viewed negative, positive, motion conditions, static, then had or recognize them. In all we EEM but no DSE. our data verify that emotions affect performance provide evidence stimuli.

Language: Английский

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Forgiving unbound: emotion, memory, and materiality in extended moral processes

Synthese, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 205(4)

Published: April 2, 2025

Abstract What does it take to forgive? Forgiveness is often thought involve an internal, intrapersonal process: happens within the subject. Drawing on idea that many of our mental states and processes can extend into material environment, we argue this not always case: forgiving a world-involving, extended process. This means its mechanisms do stop at brains, bodies, other people, or institutions may appeal to, such as legal systems: they encompass objects spaces evoke memories past wrongs actions perform upon them. These allow us forget emotional details events involving preserve neutral less emotionally charged events. By doing so, later retrieve wrongs, reflect what happened, morally evaluate wrongdoer’s actions. Importantly, so without experiencing (or by fewer) negative emotions towards wrongdoer wrong. significant, because, according emotion-based accounts forgiveness, thinking about wrongdoing in distant way underpins forgiveness. Our proposal empirically-informed but theoretical. Still, hope will serve input design new strategies for which are particularly useful cases person wronged cannot want to) interact with existing social institutions.

Language: Английский

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Cancer patients’ acceptance of virtual reality interventions for self-emotion regulation

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 9, 2025

This study investigates the acceptability of Virtual reality (VR) technology for emotional regulation among cancer patients. Drawing from extensive literature, we enhanced external variables across user characteristics, product impact factors, and social environment influences, creating "Theoretical Model Cancer Patients' Acceptance VR Intervention Self-Emotion Regulation." Surveying 489 Chinese patients validated model's strong reliability through SPSS AMOS analysis. The acceptance intervention self-emotional was assessed, revealing that average scores all 13 dimensions exceeded 3. indicates hold a positive attitude toward VR-based interventions. Perceived usefulness, usage attitude, norms, immersion, personal innovation correlated positively with behavioral intention, while technological anxiety perceived risk showed negative correlations. Findings support 15 hypotheses, offering theoretical backing in These insights provide medical institutions valuable data on patient attitudes, facilitating development targeted treatment approaches.

Language: Английский

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Why are threatening experiences remembered so well? Insights into memory strengthening from protocols of gradual aversive learning

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106145 - 106145

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Trapped in time: Time perspective explains PTSD symptom severity following childhood abuse

Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 164, P. 107450 - 107450

Published: April 18, 2025

Childhood abuse (CA) has profound impact on mental health, with survivors often exhibiting heightened vulnerability to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Time perspective-a psychological construct reflecting attitudes towards the past, present, and future-has emerged as a potential explanatory factor for PTSD symptoms; however, its role among CA remains underexplored. This study investigated time perspective following contribution explaining symptom clusters, beyond known risk factors such age, polyvictimization, of perpetrator in survivors' lives, severity. The included 977 Israeli women aged 18-70 years (M = 33.40, SD 9.54), 80 % whom reported history CA. Data were collected via an online survey. Participants completed measures assessing CA, perspective, symptoms. Non-parametric tests, correlation analyses, regression models utilized explore study's hypotheses. exhibited lower past-positive future perspectives, higher past-negative present-fatalistic greater deviations from balanced (all ps < .001, εH2 range 0.02-0.29). Additionally, present-hedonistic (p .05, 0.01). perspectives explained symptoms effects severity, varying across clusters. findings underscore symptomatology. Addressing maladaptive through tailored interventions may enhance treatment outcomes survivors.

Language: Английский

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Long-term, multi-event surprise correlates with enhanced autobiographical memory

Nature Human Behaviour, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 7(12), P. 2152 - 2168

Published: June 15, 2023

Language: Английский

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Back to the future: Progressing memory research in eating disorders

International Journal of Eating Disorders, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 56(11), P. 2032 - 2048

Published: Aug. 18, 2023

Abstract Objective Human behaviors, thoughts, and emotions are guided by memories of the past. Thus, there can be little doubt that memory plays a fundamental role in behaviors (e.g., binging), thoughts body‐image concerns), guilt) characterize eating disorders (EDs). Although growing body research has begun to investigate EDs, this literature is limited numerous ways yet integrated into an overarching framework. Methods In present article, we provide operational framework for characterizing different domains memory, briefly review existing ED within framework, highlight crucial gaps literature. Results We distinguish between three memory—episodic, procedural, working—which differ based on functional attributes underlying neural systems. Most recent focused procedural broadly defined reinforcement learning), findings all highly mixed. Further, few studies have attempted assess these simultaneously, though most behavior achieved through coordination competition We, therefore, offer recommendations how move forward each domain study interactions systems, using illustrative examples from other areas basic clinical research. Discussion A stronger more understanding mechanisms connect past experiences may yield comprehensive theoretical models EDs guide novel treatment approaches. Public Significance Memories previous eating‐related contribute onset maintenance However, limited, distinct rarely connected. organizing, progressing, integrating research, better foundation improving intervention going forward.

Language: Английский

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Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 210, P. 107904 - 107904

Published: Feb. 28, 2024

Although elements such as emotion may serve to enhance or impair memory for images, some images are consistently remembered forgotten by most people, an intrinsic characteristic of known memorability. Memorability explains the variability in performance, however, underlying mechanisms memorability remain unclear. It is that emotional valence can increase experience, but how these two interact still unknown. Hippocampal pattern separation, a computation orthogonalizes overlapping experiences distinct from one another, be candidate mechanism However, literatures have remained largely separate. To explore interaction between image and on we examined performance mnemonic discrimination task, putative behavioral correlate hippocampal splitting stimuli into memorable forgettable categories determined convolutional neural network well emotion, lure similarity, time testing (immediately 24-hour delay). We measured target recognition, which typically used determine scores, discrimination, taxes separation has not yet been within framework. Here, show more were better across both recognition measures. this was only true upon immediate testing, after delay. For found interacts with depends where primarily impacts high similarity when tested immediately low Furthermore, showed memorability, neutral compared images. These results suggest careful consideration required what makes depend aspects (e.g., gist vs. detail, neutral).

Language: Английский

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