The effects of valence and arousal on associative working memory and long-term memory.

BACKGROUND: Emotion can either facilitate or impair memory, depending on what, when and how memory is tested and whether the paradigm at hand is administered as a working memory (WM) or a long-term memory (LTM) task. Whereas emotionally arousing single stimuli are more likely to be remembered, memor...

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Main Authors: Heiko C Bergmann, Mark Rijpkema, Guillén Fernández, Roy P C Kessels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3530455?pdf=render