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Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study
The Emotional Enhancement of Memory (EEM) has been well-demonstrated in adults, but less is known about EEM in children. The present study tested the impact of emotional valence of pictures on episodic memory using behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Twenty-six 8- to 11-year-old children wer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34942900 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121598 |
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author | Massol, Sarah Caron, Cora Franck, Nicolas Demily, Caroline Chainay, Hanna |
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description | The Emotional Enhancement of Memory (EEM) has been well-demonstrated in adults, but less is known about EEM in children. The present study tested the impact of emotional valence of pictures on episodic memory using behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Twenty-six 8- to 11-year-old children were tested and compared to 30 young adults. Both groups participated in pictures’ intentional encoding tasks while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded, followed by immediate free recall tasks. Behavioral results revealed a general EEM in free recall performances in both groups, along with a negativity effect in children. ERP responses revealed a particular sensitivity to negative pictures in children with a late emotion effect at anterior clusters, as well as a greater successful encoding effect for emotional pictures compared to neutral ones. For adults, the emotion effect was more pronounced for positive pictures across all time windows from the centro-parietal to the frontal part, and localized in the left hemisphere. Positive pictures also elicited a greater successful encoding effect at anterior clusters in adults. By combining behavioral and neurophysiological measures to assess the EEM in children compared with adults, our study provides new knowledge concerning the interaction between emotional and memory processes during development. |
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spelling | pubmed-86994182021-12-24 Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study Massol, Sarah Caron, Cora Franck, Nicolas Demily, Caroline Chainay, Hanna Brain Sci Article The Emotional Enhancement of Memory (EEM) has been well-demonstrated in adults, but less is known about EEM in children. The present study tested the impact of emotional valence of pictures on episodic memory using behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Twenty-six 8- to 11-year-old children were tested and compared to 30 young adults. Both groups participated in pictures’ intentional encoding tasks while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded, followed by immediate free recall tasks. Behavioral results revealed a general EEM in free recall performances in both groups, along with a negativity effect in children. ERP responses revealed a particular sensitivity to negative pictures in children with a late emotion effect at anterior clusters, as well as a greater successful encoding effect for emotional pictures compared to neutral ones. For adults, the emotion effect was more pronounced for positive pictures across all time windows from the centro-parietal to the frontal part, and localized in the left hemisphere. Positive pictures also elicited a greater successful encoding effect at anterior clusters in adults. By combining behavioral and neurophysiological measures to assess the EEM in children compared with adults, our study provides new knowledge concerning the interaction between emotional and memory processes during development. MDPI 2021-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8699418/ /pubmed/34942900 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121598 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Massol, Sarah Caron, Cora Franck, Nicolas Demily, Caroline Chainay, Hanna Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study |
title | Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study |
title_full | Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study |
title_fullStr | Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study |
title_short | Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory in School-Age Children and Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study |
title_sort | emotional modulation of episodic memory in school-age children and adults: an event-related potential study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34942900 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121598 |
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