The effects of a distracting N-back task on recognition memory are reduced by negative emotional intensity.

The effects of a distracting N-back task on recognition memory are reduced by negative emotional intensity.

Memory performance is usually impaired when participants have to encode information while performing a concurrent task. Recent studies using recall tasks have found that emotional items are more resistant to such cognitive depletion effects than non-emotional items. However, when recognition tasks a...

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Main Authors: Luciano G Buratto, Claire L Pottage, Charity Brown, Catriona M Morrison, Alexandre Schaefer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4199670?pdf=render

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