Mather Mara, Nesmith Kathryn
Mara Mather and Kathryn Nesmith, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
J Mem Lang. 2008 Feb;58(2):449-464. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.01.004.
Four experiments revealed arousal-enhanced location memory for pictures. After an incidental encoding task, participants were more likely to remember the locations of positive and negative arousing pictures than the locations of non-arousing pictures, indicating better binding of location to picture. This arousal-enhanced binding effect did not have a cost for the binding of nearby pictures to their locations. Thus, arousal can enhance binding of an arousing picture's content to its location without interfering with picture-location binding for nearby pictures. In addition, arousal-enhanced picture-location memory binding is not just a side effect of enhanced memory for the picture itself, as it occurs both when recognition memory is good and when it is poor.
四项实验揭示了对图片的唤醒增强位置记忆。在一项附带编码任务后,与非唤醒图片的位置相比,参与者更有可能记住积极和消极唤醒图片的位置,这表明位置与图片之间的绑定更好。这种唤醒增强的绑定效应对于附近图片与其位置的绑定没有代价。因此,唤醒可以增强唤醒图片的内容与其位置的绑定,而不会干扰附近图片的图片-位置绑定。此外,唤醒增强的图片-位置记忆绑定不仅仅是图片本身记忆增强的副作用,因为它在识别记忆良好和不佳时都会出现。