Influence of affective meaning on memory for contextual information |
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Authors: | D'Argembeau Arnaud Van der Linden Martial |
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Affiliation: | Cognitive Psychopathology Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. a.dargembeau@ulg.ac.be |
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Abstract: | In 4 experiments, the authors investigated the influence of the affective meaning of words on memory for 2 kinds of contextual features that differ in the amount of effortful processes they require to be encoded in memory (i.e., color and spatial location). The main results showed that memory for color, in which words were typed, was better for emotional than for neutral words, but only when color information was learned incidentally. In contrast, spatial location of the words was better remembered for emotional than for neutral words whatever the encoding conditions (intentional vs. incidental). It is suggested that the influence of affective meaning on context memory may involve an automatic attraction of attention to contextual features associated with emotional words. |
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