Emotional modulation of episodic memory in school-age children and adults: Emotional items and their associated contextual details.
Sarah Massol, Sophie Vantaggio, Hanna Chainay
Abstract
= 36) performed the experiments and were compared to two groups of equivalent numbers of young adults. Participants completed an intentional-encoding task followed by immediate item recognition, associative recall and item recall tasks. Over the two experiments and in both groups, the results revealed (a) no EEM for words and pictures in recognition tasks, (b) EEM for words in item recall and associative recall tasks, and (c) mixed results for pictures, with an EEM being observed in item recall tasks but not systematically in associative recall tasks. By extending the results over two types of stimuli and their associated contextual information, our study provides new knowledge concerning the effect of emotions on episodic memory in children, which seems to be similar to that observed in young adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).