Working Memory Capacity For Faces With Different Levels of Emotional Valence

Abstract The capacity of visual working memory (VWM) depends on the complexity stimuli being processed. Emotional characteristics increase stimulus and can interfere with competition for cognitive resources. Studies involving emotional information processing are scarce still produce contradicting results. In present study, we investigated VWM faces positive, negative, neutral expressions. A modified change-detection task was used in two experiments, which number valence were manipulated. results showed that has a storage approximately faces, is fewer than identified simpler stimuli. Our reinforce evidence dynamically distribute its resources depending both amount nature