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The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer
INTRODUCTION: Remembering where negative events occur has undeniable adaptive value, however, how these memories are formed remains elusive. We investigated the role of working memory subcomponents in binding emotional and visuo-spatial information using an emotional version of the object relocation...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37034170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1112805 |
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author | Cianfanelli, Beatrice Esposito, Antonino Spataro, Pietro Santirocchi, Alessandro Cestari, Vincenzo Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia Costanzi, Marco |
author_facet | Cianfanelli, Beatrice Esposito, Antonino Spataro, Pietro Santirocchi, Alessandro Cestari, Vincenzo Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia Costanzi, Marco |
author_sort | Cianfanelli, Beatrice |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Remembering where negative events occur has undeniable adaptive value, however, how these memories are formed remains elusive. We investigated the role of working memory subcomponents in binding emotional and visuo-spatial information using an emotional version of the object relocation task (EORT). METHODS: After displaying black rectangles simultaneously, emotional pictures (from the International Affective Pictures System) appeared sequentially over each rectangle. Participants repositioned the rectangles as accurately as possible after all stimuli had disappeared. During the EORT encoding phase, a verbal trail task was administered concurrently to selectively interfere with the central executive (CE). The immediate post-encoding administration of an object feature-report task was used to interfere with the episodic buffer (EB). RESULTS: Only the EB-interfering task prevented the emotion-enhancing effect of negative pictures. The latter effect was not observed with a concurrent executive task. DISCUSSION: Overall, our findings suggest that pre-attentive automatic processes are primarily involved in binding emotional and visuo-spatial information in the EB. |
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spelling | pubmed-100734702023-04-06 The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer Cianfanelli, Beatrice Esposito, Antonino Spataro, Pietro Santirocchi, Alessandro Cestari, Vincenzo Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia Costanzi, Marco Front Neurosci Neuroscience INTRODUCTION: Remembering where negative events occur has undeniable adaptive value, however, how these memories are formed remains elusive. We investigated the role of working memory subcomponents in binding emotional and visuo-spatial information using an emotional version of the object relocation task (EORT). METHODS: After displaying black rectangles simultaneously, emotional pictures (from the International Affective Pictures System) appeared sequentially over each rectangle. Participants repositioned the rectangles as accurately as possible after all stimuli had disappeared. During the EORT encoding phase, a verbal trail task was administered concurrently to selectively interfere with the central executive (CE). The immediate post-encoding administration of an object feature-report task was used to interfere with the episodic buffer (EB). RESULTS: Only the EB-interfering task prevented the emotion-enhancing effect of negative pictures. The latter effect was not observed with a concurrent executive task. DISCUSSION: Overall, our findings suggest that pre-attentive automatic processes are primarily involved in binding emotional and visuo-spatial information in the EB. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10073470/ /pubmed/37034170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1112805 Text en Copyright © 2023 Cianfanelli, Esposito, Spataro, Santirocchi, Cestari, Rossi-Arnaud and Costanzi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Cianfanelli, Beatrice Esposito, Antonino Spataro, Pietro Santirocchi, Alessandro Cestari, Vincenzo Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia Costanzi, Marco The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer |
title | The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer |
title_full | The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer |
title_fullStr | The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer |
title_full_unstemmed | The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer |
title_short | The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer |
title_sort | binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: a possible role for the episodic buffer |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37034170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1112805 |
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