Recollecting positive and negative autobiographical memories disrupts working memory |
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Authors: | Richard J Allen Alexandre Schaefer Thomas Falcon |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK;2. Monash University Malaysia, School of Business |
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Abstract: | The present article reports two experiments examining the impact of recollecting emotionally valenced autobiographical memories on subsequent working memory (WM) task performance. Experiment 1 found that negatively valenced recollection significantly disrupted performance on a supra-span spatial WM task. Experiment 2 replicated and extended these findings to a verbal WM task (digit recall), and found that both negative and positive autobiographical recollections had a detrimental effect on verbal WM. In addition, we observed that these disruptive effects were more apparent on early trials, immediately following autobiographical recollection. Overall, these findings show that both positive and negative affect can disrupt WM when the mood-eliciting context is based on autobiographical memories. Furthermore, these results indicate that the emotional disruption of WM can take place across different modalities of WM (verbal and visuo-spatial). |
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Keywords: | Emotion Working memory Autobiographical memory Cognitive control |
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