Recollecting positive and negative autobiographical memories disrupts working memory

Allen, Richard J.; Schaefer, Alexandre; Falcon, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.003

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“…As displayed in Table 2, a range of studies investigated WM storage and span capacity in healthy subjects using a variety of induction methods before the WM task ( Allen, Schaefer, & Falcon, 2014 ; Chepenik et al, 2007 ; Esmaeili, Karimi, Tabatabaie, Moradi, & Farahini, 2011 ; Mayshak, Sharman, & Zinkiewicz, 2016 ; Palmiero, Nori, Rogolino, D'Amico, & Piccardi, 2015 , 2016 ; Palmiero & Piccardi, 2017 ; Spachtholz, Kuhbandner, & Pekrun, 2014 ; Xie & Zhang, 2016 ). Only two studies included emotional pictures as the target of the WM task.…”

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“…In general, effectively induced negative mood, regardless of the method used, seems to decrease WM performance. For example, Allen et al ( 2014 ) indicated in their experiments that recollecting negative or positive autobiographical emotional memories could impair WM performance across both verbal and visual modalities assessed by the digit recall span and the Corsi span task. Similarly, Spachtholz et al ( 2014 ) showed that negative mood induction through the recollection of negative autobiographical memories and listening to music decreased the storage capacity of items but increased the quality of visuospatial WM representations compared to a neutral mood.…”

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“…More specifically, these papers revealed that negatively induced mood may have a deleterious effect on visuospatial WM. Indeed, the majority of the reviewed papers ( Allen et al, 2014 ; Curci et al, 2015 , Mather et al, 2006 ; Osaka et al, 2013 ; Spachtholz et al, 2014 ) provided evidence for such an effect, regardless of the WM task used (colour recall, source-monitoring task, digit recall, block recall, OSPAN, and reading span).…”

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How Does Allocation of Emotional Stimuli Impact Working Memory Tasks? An Overview

Ribeiro¹,

Santos²,

Albuquerque³

2019

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In this review, we investigated the influence of happy/pleasurable and sad/unpleasant emotional stimuli on working memory (WM) performance. Twenty-eight out of 356 articles were reviewed. We observed that emotional stimuli were used as mood inductors or as targets comprising the WM task. Results showed that WM modalities were influenced differently when updating, interference resolution, span, and complex tasks were applied. Specifically, we found distinct effects of emotional stimuli for updating tasks, in which (a) verbal modality seems to be impaired regardless of the emotional valence used compared to neutral stimuli, (b) visual updating processes appear to be improved by emotional stimuli as the targets of the task, and (c) emotional words improved interference resolution performance. As for storage, span, and complex WM tasks, sad/unpleasant emotional stimuli seem to decrease both verbal and visuospatial modalities when used as emotional inductors.

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How Does Allocation of Emotional Stimuli Impact Working Memory Tasks? An Overview

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Albuquerque³

2019

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“…In addition, subjects recruit additional neural resources when performing the Sternberg WM task under cold pressor stress compared to during periods of nonstress, suggesting that stress reduces WM processing efficiency (Porcelli et al, ). Finally, both verbal and spatial WM capacity is reduced following recall of negative autobiographical memories (Allen, Schaefer, & Falcon, ), suggesting that negative mood induction has a similar detrimental effect.…”

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Working memory maintenance is sufficient to reduce state anxiety

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According to the attentional control theory (ACT) proposed by Eysenck and colleagues, anxiety interferes with cognitive processing by prioritizing bottom-up attentional processes over top-down attentional processes, leading to competition for access to limited resources in working memory, particularly the central executive (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007). However, previous research using the n-back working memory task suggests that working memory load also reduces state anxiety. Assuming that similar mechanisms underlie the effect of anxiety on cognition, and the effect of cognition on anxiety, one possible implication of the ACT would suggest that the reduction of state anxiety with increasing working memory load is driven by activation of central executive attentional control processes. We tested this hypothesis using the Sternberg working memory paradigm, where maintenance processes can be isolated from central executive processes (Altamura et al., 2007; Sternberg, 1966). Consistent with the n-back results, subjects showed decreased state anxiety during the maintenance period of high load trials relative to low load trials, suggesting that maintenance processes alone are sufficient to achieve this state anxiety reduction. Given that the Sternberg task does not require central executive engagement, these results are not consistent with an implication of the ACT where the cognition/anxiety relationship and anxiety/cognition relationship are mediated by similar central executive mechanisms. Instead, we propose an extension of the ACT such that engaging working memory maintenance suppresses state anxiety in a load-dependent manner. Furthermore, we hypothesize that the efficacy of this effect may moderate the effect of trait anxiety on cognition.

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“…Various studies have demonstrated that working memory is impaired in depressed individuals [24,25]. In addition, research has demonstrated that negative affect is associated with poorer working memory performance [26,27]. The Resource Allocation Model is thought to explain this observation.…”

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The influence of an induced negative emotional state on autobiographical memory coherence

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Individuals who experience difficulty constructing coherent narratives about significant personal experiences generally report less psychological well-being and more depressive symptoms. It remains, however, unclear whether a negative emotional state, one of the core symptoms of depression, causes this impairment in autobiographical memory coherence. The current study aimed to examine the causal relation between mood and memory coherence by means of a mood induction paradigm. A group of 165 students were randomly allocated to one of three mood groups: negative, positive, and neutral. We hypothesized that memory coherence would decrease following a negative mood induction. In addition, working memory capacity was expected to mediate the association between mood and memory coherence. Contrary to predictions, memory coherence increased following a negative mood induction. This increase was likewise observed in the positive mood group, though memory coherence remained consistent in the neutral mood group. This effect of mood on memory coherence was solely observed in female participants and not in the small male subsample. Results provided no support for the hypothesis that working memory capacity functioned as an underlying mechanism. Different theoretical explanations are discussed.

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Recollecting positive and negative autobiographical memories disrupts working memory

Cited by 30 publications

References 64 publications

How Does Allocation of Emotional Stimuli Impact Working Memory Tasks? An Overview

How Does Allocation of Emotional Stimuli Impact Working Memory Tasks? An Overview

Working memory maintenance is sufficient to reduce state anxiety

The influence of an induced negative emotional state on autobiographical memory coherence

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