Emotional interference-based forgetting in short-term memory: cognitive inhibition of pleasant but not unpleasant biologically relevant distractors
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología BásicaPublisher
Frontiers Research FoundationDate
2015-05-06Citation
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00582
Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015): 582
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1664-1078 (online)DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00582Funded by
JGP has been supported by a fellowship from the “Programa Nacional de Contratación e Incorporación de Recursos Humanos de Investigación (PTA2009-1803-I), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and InnovationSubjects
Working memory; Forgetting; Emotional distraction; Cognitive inhibition; Interference; PsicologíaRights
© 2015 García-Pacios, Del Río, Villalobos, Ruiz-Vargas and MaestúAbstract
Emotional stimuli automatically recruit attentional resources. Although this usually brings more adaptive responses, it may suppose a disadvantage when emotional information is task-irrelevant and should be ignored. Previous studies have shown how emotional stimuli with a negative content exert a greater interference than neutral stimuli during a concurrent working memory (WM) task. However, the impact of positively valenced stimuli as interference has not been addressed to date. In three experiments and one re-analysis we explore the impact of pleasant and unpleasant emotional distractors during WM maintenance. The results suggest that our cognitive control can cope with the interference posed by pleasant distractors as well as with the interference posed by neutral stimuli. However, unpleasant distractors are harder to control in the context of WM maintenance. As unpleasant stimuli usually convey relevant information that we should not to ignore, our executive control seems to be less able to reallocate cognitive resources after unpleasant distraction
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Google Scholar:García Pacios, Javier
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Río, David del
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Villalobos, Dolores
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Ruiz Vargas, José María
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Maestú, Fernando
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