scholarly journals CMPBUP100006Measuring working memory usage on aphasic individuals and analysis of emotional valence through electroencephalography

2021 ◽  
pp. 100006
Author(s):  
Marcelus Luis Oldoni ◽  
Tiago Catecati ◽  
Eduardo José Legal ◽  
Marcelo Gitirana Gomes Ferreira ◽  
Alejandro Rafael Garcia Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Memory Usage

Evidence of syntactic working memory usage in MEG data

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marten van Schijndel ◽  
Brian Murphy ◽  
William Schuler
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Usage

scholarly journals Who Did What and When? Using Word- and Clause-Level ERPs to Monitor Working Memory Usage in Reading

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan W. King ◽  
Marta Kutas
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Sentence Type ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Memory Usage ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Poor Comprehenders ◽  
Anterior Negativity ◽  
Object Relative

ERPs were recorded from 24 undergraduates as they read sentences known to differ in syntactic complexity and working memory requirements, namely Object and Subject Relative sentences. Both the single-word and multiword analyses revealed significant differences due to sentence type, while multiword ERPs also showed that sentence type effects differed for Good and Poor comprehenders. At the single-word level, ERPs to both verbs in Object Relative sentences showed a left anterior negativity between 300 and 500 msec postword-onset relative to those to Subject Relative verbs. At the multiword level, a slow frontal positivity characterized Subject Relative sentences, but was absent for Object Relatives. This slow positivity appears to index ease of processing or integration. and was more robust in Good than in Poor comprehenders.

scholarly journals Working memory guidance of visual attention to threat in offenders

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0261882
Author(s):  
Tamara S. Satmarean ◽  
Elizabeth Milne ◽  
Richard Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Visual Search ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Attention Allocation ◽  
Trait Anger ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Social Cognitive Models

Aggression and trait anger have been linked to attentional biases toward angry faces and attribution of hostile intent in ambiguous social situations. Memory and emotion play a crucial role in social-cognitive models of aggression but their mechanisms of influence are not fully understood. Combining a memory task and a visual search task, this study investigated the guidance of attention allocation toward naturalistic face targets during visual search by visual working memory (WM) templates in 113 participants who self-reported having served a custodial sentence. Searches were faster when angry faces were held in working memory regardless of the emotional valence of the visual search target. Higher aggression and trait anger predicted increased working memory modulated attentional bias. These results are consistent with the Social-Information Processing model, demonstrating that internal representations bias attention allocation to threat and that the bias is linked to aggression and trait anger.

The effects of oxytocin on primates’ working memory depend on the emotional valence of contextual factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 362 ◽  
pp. 82-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahab A. Zarei ◽  
Vahid Sheibani ◽  
Carlos Tomaz ◽  
Farshad A. Mansouri
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Emotional Valence

scholarly journals Working Memory Beats Age: Evidence of the Influence of Working Memory on the Production of Children’s Emotional False Memories

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Mirandola ◽  
Francesca Pazzaglia
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Positive Events ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Children First

Emotional valence and working memory ability (WM) affect false memories’ production in adults. Whereas a number of studies have investigated the role of emotional valence in children’s tendency to produce spontaneous false memories, individual differences in WM have not been previously included. In the current article, we were interested in investigating whether emotion and WM would interact in influencing the propensity to incur inferential false memories for scripted events. Ninety-eight typically developing children (first-, third-, and eighth- graders) were administered the Emotional false memory paradigm – allowing to study false memories for negative, positive, and neutral events – and a WM task. Results showed that regardless of age, valence influenced false memories’ production, such that positive events protected against incurring distortions. Furthermore, WM interacted with valence, such that children with higher WM abilities produced fewer false memories for negative events. Concerning confidence judgments, only the youngest group of children claimed to be overconfident when committing false memories for negative and neutral events. Results are discussed in terms of the role of individual differences in higher cognitive abilities interacting with the emotional content of to-be-remembered events.

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