Recognition memory for pictorial stimuli: Biasing effects of stimulus emotionality
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Fernández-Rey, J., & Redondo, J. (2007). Recognition memory for pictorial stimuli: Biasing effects of stimulus emotionality. Psicothema, 19(Número 3), 375–380. Retrieved from https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/PST/article/view/8542

Abstract

The possibility that stimulus emotionality might influence recognition bias in a long-term memory task was studied with respect to both the valence and arousal dimensions of emotion. For this purpose, we used 108 International Affective Picture System pictures that were representative of all regions of this two-dimensional space. Signal detection theory analysis was applied using A' and B"D as discrimination and bias measures, respectively. In general, the results showed that greater discrimination was accompanied by a response bias that was more conservative for pleasant and for unarousing pictures than for unpleasant and for arousing ones. These results provide new evidence in connection with the emotion-induced recognition bias in long-term memory performance.
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