We investigated the impact of emotions on learning vocabulary in an unfamiliar language to better understand affective influences in foreign language acquisition. Seventy native English speakers learned new vocabulary in either a negative or a neutral emotional state. Participants also completed two sets of working memory tasks to examine the potential mediating role of working memory. Results ...

Selective attention relies on working memory to maintain an attention set of task priorities. Consequently, selective attention is more efficient when working memory resources are not depleted. However, there is some evidence that distractors are processed even when working memory load is low. We used tDCS to assess whether boosting the activity of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC), in...

• Trait emotional intelligence predicts the number of emotion words retrieved. Negligible effect working memory capacity on retrieval words. Valence effects are less language -dependent and more psychologically -dependent. Common salient in L1 L2; predominance positive Negative link between trait intelligence. Cognition interrelated concepts. However, very little is known about relation (WMC) (...

Individuals with features of borderline personality disorder (BPD) are highly sensitive to social rejection. Working memory (WM) may play a critical role in processing emotional interpersonal information BPD. Yet, little is known about how WM operations related sensitivity rejection cues and BPD features. Therefore, this study examined relationships among operations, sensitivity, Participants (...