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Consistency of memory for emotionally arousing events: a review of prospective and experimental studies.
Although emotionally arousing events are more memorable than ordinary daily life events, the nature of memories for emotionally arousing events is widely debated. On the one hand, researchers consider memories for highly emotional events as malleable and subject to distortion, while on the other hand these memories are perceived as both indelible and consistent over the lifetime. Up till now, a...
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Emotionally arousing events are typically better remembered and more resistant to forgetting than neutral events. Findings from word list paradigms suggest that this may not hold for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), who also tend to be less accurate as eyewitnesses under some circumstances. To test whether attenuated effects of arousal on memory may be responsible for poorer eye...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196888