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SUBMITTER: Madan CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6612425 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Madan Christopher R CR Scott Sarah M E SME Kensinger Elizabeth A EA
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20180820 4
The influence of emotion on association-memory is often attributed to arousal, but negative stimuli are typically used to test for these effects. While prior studies of negative emotion on association-memory have found impairments, theories suggest that positive emotion may have a distinct effect on memory, and may lead to enhanced association-memory. Here we tested participants' memory for pairs of positive and neutral words using cued recall, supplemented with a mathematical modeling approach ...[more]