Allen, RJ, Schaefer, A and Falcon, T (2014) Recollecting positive and negative autobiographical memories disrupts working memory. Acta Psychologica, 151. 237 - 243. ISSN 0001-6918
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Acta Psychologica. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | Autobiographical memory; Cognitive control; Emotion; Working memory; Adult; Affect; Emotions; Female; Humans; Male; Memory, Episodic; Memory, Short-Term; Young Adult |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2015 10:59 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2016 10:44 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.003 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.003 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:84470 |