Abstract: This chapter considers how events that elicit emotional responses are learned and remembered. It examines three types of memory: implicit memory, explicit episodic memory, and working memory. Implicit memory also referred to as procedural memory in some schemes, is largely inaccessible to conscious awareness. Pavlovian fear conditioning figures prominently in research on emotion and implicit memory. Explicit memory, also referred to as declarative memory, is accessible to awareness and verbal report and is tested by recall and recognition. Explicit memory includes long-term memory for specific episodes as well as semantic memory for facts and information in the public domain. Working memory refers to the online maintenance and manipulation of a limited amount of information for a brief (several seconds) period of time. The relationship between emotion and working memory has been least well examined; however, recent work suggests that this form of emotional memory may play an important role in “feeling states,” emotional regulation, and decision making. The chapter reviews evidence pertaining to the recognition and recall of emotionally laden events and stimuli, as well as personal autobiographical memory.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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