Recognition memory of neutral words can be impaired by task-irrelevant emotional encoding contexts: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Previous studies on the effects of emotional context on memory for centrally presented neutral items have obtained inconsistent results. And in most of those studies subjects were asked to either make a connection between the item and the context at study or retrieve both the item and the context. W...

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Main Authors: Qin eZhang, Xuan eLiu, Wei eAn, Yang eYang, Yinan eWang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00073/full