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SUBMITTER: Sakaki M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7102494 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sakaki Michiko M Ueno Taiji T Ponzio Allison A Harley Carolyn W CW Mather Mara M
Cognition 20190308
Emotional arousal often facilitates memory for some aspects of an event while impairing memory for other aspects of the same event. Across three experiments, we found that emotional arousal amplifies competition among goal-relevant representations, such that arousal impairs memory for multiple goal-relevant representations while enhancing memory for solo goal-relevant information. We also present a computational model to explain the mechanisms by which emotional arousal can modulate memory in op ...[more]