Anxiety selectively disrupts visuospatial working memory.

Shackman, Alexander J.; Sarinopoulos, Issidoros; Maxwell, Jeffrey S.; Pizzagalli, Diego A.; Lavric, Aureliu; Davidson, Richard J.

doi:10.1037/1528-3542.6.1.40

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“…Recent research also shows that negative affect can support memory of details, while positive affect increases working memory performance and supports memory of the "big picture" of situations [1,32]. Another experiment found that anxiety (which falls under negative affect) can significantly disrupt visuospatial working memory, leaving verbal working memory intact [45]. Our study is partially based on these prior findings, and apply the same text-based affective priming techniques as presented by Goeritz and Verheyen [21,48].…”

Section: Affect and Cognitionsupporting

confidence: 53%

Influencing visual judgment through affective priming

Harrison

Skau

Franconeri

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Recent research suggests that individual personality differences can influence performance with visualizations. In addition to stable personality traits, research in psychology has found that temporary changes in affect (emotion) can also significantly impact performance during cognitive tasks. In this paper, we show that affective priming also influences user performance on visual judgment tasks through an experiment that combines affective priming with longstanding graphical perception experiments. Our results suggest that affective priming can influence accuracy in common graphical perception tasks. We discuss possible explanations for these findings, and describe how these findings can be applied to design visualizations that are less (or more) susceptible to error in common visualization contexts.

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Section: Affect and Cognitionsupporting

confidence: 53%

Influencing visual judgment through affective priming

Harrison

Skau

Franconeri

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…In addition, in people with schizophrenia it has been found that increased physiological reactivity is associated with increased CD for negative topics (Docherty et al, 2001). One issue for future research might be to more directly examine whether in disorganized schizotypy there is an increased effect of emotion on cognition (Martin & Clore, 2001), or more specifically of emotion on working memory (e.g., Shackman et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Communication disturbances, working memory, and emotion in people with elevated disorganized schizotypy

Kerns¹,

Becker²

2008

Schizophrenia Research

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This study examined whether people with elevated disorganized schizotypy would differ from control participants on characteristics associated with disorganization symptoms in schizophrenia and also whether disorganized schizotypy was associated with problems processing emotion. People with disorganized schizotypy (n = 32) exhibited greater communication disturbances (CD) than control participants (n = 34) for emotionally negative topics but not for positive topics. In addition, the disorganized group exhibited poorer performance on a working memory task but not on a psychometrically matched verbal intelligence task. In addition, poor working memory was associated with increased CD for negative topics and, after controlling for group differences in working memory, group differences in CD were not significant. Moreover, the disorganized group exhibited greater emotional ambivalence and ambivalence was associated with increased CD in the disorganized group. These results suggest that people with disorganized schizotypy exhibit some similar characteristics to people with schizophrenia who have disorganization symptoms and that disorganized schizotypy is also associated with poor emotion processing.

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“…Alternatively, poorer performance on the Tower of Hanoi task in left-handed participants may reflect the higher levels of state anxiety displayed by left-handed people in novel situations (Wright, & Hardie, 2012) and the disruption of visuospatial working memory caused by anxiety (Shackman et al, 2006).Future research may further compare the performance of left and right-handed participants on novel tablet based tasks.…”

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confidence: 99%