Novak Deanna L, Mather Mara
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2009 Oct;37(7):945-52. doi: 10.3758/MC.37.7.945.
In two experiments, we investigated whether people are better or worse at updating memory for the location of emotional pictures than of neutral pictures. We measured participants' memories for the locations of both arousing negative pictures and neutral pictures while manipulating practice (encountering the same event repeatedly) and interference (encountering the same picture in a different location). Memory for the context of emotional items was less likely to be corrected when erroneous and was less likely to be correctly updated when the context changed. These results suggest that initial item-context binding is more tenacious for emotional items than for neutral items, even when such binding is incorrect.
在两项实验中，我们研究了人们在更新关于情绪图片位置的记忆方面，相比中性图片是表现得更好还是更差。我们测量了参与者对引发负面情绪的图片和中性图片位置的记忆，同时操纵练习（反复遇到相同事件）和干扰（在不同位置遇到相同图片）。当出现错误时，情绪项目背景的记忆较难被纠正，当背景发生变化时，也较难被正确更新。这些结果表明，即使初始的项目 - 背景绑定是错误的，情绪项目的绑定也比中性项目更牢固。
