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Interference from Emotional Items Within and Across Events

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posted on 2013-07-19, 00:00 authored by Andrea Kay Tamplin
The kind of information we perceive influences what we remember in many ways. One profound perception is the influence of emotional content on memory for surrounding, nonemotional elements. A large body of evidence shows that affective information consistently causes memory to differ from memory of emotionally neutral information. This research examines retroactive and proactive influences on memory for neutral information during language comprehension in the presence of emotional, distinctive and event boundary information. Findings suggest that an interaction between these two influences causes target information to be remembered better when emotional or distinctive information occurs without an event boundary (within the same event), but not when the emotional or distinctive information occurs across an event boundary, even though there is an overall benefit of the event boundary itself. This finding for emotional and distinctive information suggests that memory for narratives is complex and dependent on the situational factors of the narrative that influence the mental representation.

History

Date Modified

2017-06-05

Defense Date

2013-04-19

Research Director(s)

G. A. Radvansky

Committee Members

G. A. Radvansky

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Level

  • Doctoral Dissertation

Language

  • English

Alternate Identifier

etd-07192013-124732

Publisher

University of Notre Dame

Additional Groups

  • Psychology

Program Name

  • Psychology

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