Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2009 Dec;24(4):981-8. doi: 10.1037/a0017545.
Current theories predict opposing effects of emotionally arousing information on false memory. If emotion enhances true recollection, then false recollection might be lower for emotional than for neutral pictures. However, if emotion enhances conceptual relatedness, then false recollection might increase for nonstudied but emotionally related pictures. We contrasted these 2 factors in young and older adults, using the International Affective Pictures Systems set (Lang, Bradley, & Cuthbert, 2005). Although both age groups used recollection in our task, false recollection was greatest for emotional pictures, supporting a conceptual relatedness account. Finally, even after accuracy differences were controlled, age was related to high-confidence false recollection of emotional pictures.
目前的理论预测情绪唤起信息对错误记忆有相反的影响。如果情绪增强了真实的回忆,那么对于情绪图片来说,错误的回忆可能会比中性图片低。然而,如果情绪增强了概念上的相关性,那么对于非学习但情绪相关的图片,错误的回忆可能会增加。我们使用国际情感图片系统集(Lang、Bradley 和 Cuthbert,2005)在年轻人和老年人中对比了这两个因素。尽管两个年龄组在我们的任务中都使用了回忆,但情绪图片的错误回忆最多,这支持了概念相关性的解释。最后,即使在控制了准确性差异后,年龄与对情绪图片的高置信度错误回忆有关。