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A facilitative effe...
A facilitative effect of negative affective valence on working memory
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- Gotoh, Fumiko (author)
- University of Tsukuba
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- Kikuchi, Tadashi (author)
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
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- Olofsson, Ulrich (author)
- Mittuniversitetet,Linköpings universitet,Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande,Filosofiska fakulteten,Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap (-2013)
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- 2010-01-31
- 2010
- English.
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In: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 0036-5564 .- 1467-9450. ; 51:3, s. 185-191
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- Previous studies have shown that negatively valenced information impaired working memory performance due to an attention-capturing effect. The present study examined whether negative valence could also facilitate working memory. Affective words (negative, neutral, positive) were used as retro-cues in a working memory task that required participants to remember colors at different spatial locations on a computer screen. Following the cue, a target detection task was used to either shift attention to a different location or keep attention at the same location as the retro-cue. Finally, participants were required to discriminate the cued color from a set of distractors. It was found that negative cues yielded shorter response times (RTs) in the attention-shift condition and longer RTs in the attention-stay condition, compared with neutral and positive cues. The results suggest that negative affective valence may enhance working memory performance (RTs), provided that attention can be disengaged.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Working memory
- attention-capturing
- affective valence
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
- Psychology
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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