Enhanced recognition memory for emotional nonverbal sounds.

IF 2.2 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Memory Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-05 DOI:10.1080/09658211.2025.2472969
Erin Morrow, Susie Shepardson, Stephan Hamann
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Abstract

Emotion often enhances memory for emotional stimuli relative to neutral stimuli. This emotional memory enhancement effect has been studied extensively with visual and verbal stimuli, yet little is known regarding emotion's effects on memory for nonverbal (or environmental) sounds, such as dog snarls and infant cries. Additionally, emotion's enhancing effects on recognition for visual and verbal stimuli are selective to recollection (recognition with contextual retrieval) rather than familiarity (recognition based on memory strength), but whether this is also the case for nonverbal sounds is unknown. We examined recognition memory for negative and neutral nonverbal sounds, predicting that memory would be enhanced for negative sounds and this enhancement would be specific to recollection. Participants incidentally encoded negative and neutral sounds, and memory was tested with a remember-familiar recognition memory task after a 15-minute delay. As predicted, recognition memory was enhanced for negative sounds, was better for higher versus lower arousal negative sounds, and was specific to recollection. These findings suggest that key aspects of the emotional enhancement effect also extend to nonverbal sounds. We discuss how current theories of emotional memory which focus on memory for visual and verbal stimuli can be extended to accommodate findings with nonverbal emotional auditory stimuli.

增强对情绪性非语言声音的识别记忆。
相对于中性刺激,情绪往往能增强对情绪刺激的记忆。这种情绪记忆增强效应已经通过视觉和语言刺激进行了广泛的研究,但对于非语言(或环境)声音,如狗的咆哮和婴儿的哭声,情绪对记忆的影响却知之甚少。此外,情绪对视觉和语言刺激的识别的增强作用是选择性的回忆(通过上下文检索的识别)而不是熟悉(基于记忆强度的识别),但这是否也是非语言声音的情况是未知的。我们研究了对消极和中性的非语言声音的识别记忆,预测对消极声音的记忆会增强,而且这种增强是特定于回忆的。参与者偶然地对消极和中性的声音进行编码,并在15分钟后通过记忆熟悉的识别记忆任务测试记忆。正如预测的那样,对消极声音的识别记忆得到了增强,对高唤醒的消极声音比低唤醒的消极声音更好,并且是特定于回忆的。这些发现表明,情绪增强效应的关键方面也延伸到非语言声音。我们讨论了当前关注视觉和语言刺激记忆的情绪记忆理论如何扩展,以适应非语言情绪听觉刺激的研究结果。
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Memory
Memory PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
3.50
自引率
9.50%
发文量
79
期刊介绍: Memory publishes high quality papers in all areas of memory research. This includes experimental studies of memory (including laboratory-based research, everyday memory studies, and applied memory research), developmental, educational, neuropsychological, clinical and social research on memory. By representing all significant areas of memory research, the journal cuts across the traditional distinctions of psychological research. Memory therefore provides a unique venue for memory researchers to communicate their findings and ideas both to peers within their own research tradition in the study of memory, and also to the wider range of research communities with direct interest in human memory.
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