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The effect of divided attention on emotion-induced memory narrowing.


ABSTRACT: Individuals are more likely to remember emotional than neutral information, but this benefit does not always extend to the surrounding background information. This memory narrowing is theorised to be linked to the availability of attentional resources at encoding. In contrast to the predictions of this theoretical account, altering participants' attentional resources at encoding by dividing attention did not affect emotion-induced memory narrowing. Attention was divided using three separate manipulations: a digit ordering task (Experiment 1), an arithmetic task (Experiment 2) and an auditory discrimination task (Experiment 3). Across all three experiments, divided attention decreased memory across the board but did not affect the degree of memory narrowing. These findings suggest that theories to explain memory narrowing must be expanded to include other potential mechanisms beyond the limitations of attentional resources.

SUBMITTER: Mickley Steinmetz KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4020977 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The effect of divided attention on emotion-induced memory narrowing.

Mickley Steinmetz Katherine R KR   Waring Jill D JD   Kensinger Elizabeth A EA  

Cognition & emotion 20131203 5


Individuals are more likely to remember emotional than neutral information, but this benefit does not always extend to the surrounding background information. This memory narrowing is theorised to be linked to the availability of attentional resources at encoding. In contrast to the predictions of this theoretical account, altering participants' attentional resources at encoding by dividing attention did not affect emotion-induced memory narrowing. Attention was divided using three separate mani  ...[more]

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