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SUBMITTER: Mickley Steinmetz KR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4020977 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]