Post-encoding positive emotion impairs associative memory for English vocabulary

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 4; p. e0228614
• Main Authors: Li, Chengchen, Fan, Lin, Wang, Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 06.04.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Affect - physiology; Arousal - physiology; Associative memory; Biology and Life Sciences; Child; College students; Elementary school students; Emotions; Emotions - physiology; English (Second language); Experiments; Female; Foreign languages; High school students; High schools; Humans; Language; Learning; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Memory; Memory - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Pictures; Recall; Social Sciences; Students; Studies; Vocabulary; Words (language); United Kingdom; China; Beijing China

There is evidence that emotion induced during encoding impairs associative memory (e.g., Bisby, Horner, Bush, & Burgess, 2018), yet the effect of post-encoding emotion (particularly positive emotion) on associative memory remains largely unclear. Two experiments were conducted to examine the eff...