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. 2013 Mar 1;4:103. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00103

Table 1.

Sample of relevant studies on emotion's effect on contextual and relational information, organized by outcome and study design.

Enhanced Impaired
  • Source memory
    • • Word-color, word-color frame (Doerksen and Shimamura, 2001)
    • • Word-location (MacKay and Ahmetzanov, 2005)
    • • Word-color, word-location (D'Argembeau and Van der Linden, 2004)
    • • Picture-location
      • ◦ (Mather and Nesmith, 2008)
      • ◦ (Nashiro and Mather, 2011)
    • • Scenes-location, within list order (Schmidt et al., 2011)
    • • Temporal context: predictive preceding neutral item (Knight and Mather, 2009)
      • • Word-task (seen vs. imagined) (Kensinger and Schacter, 2006b)
  • Paired Design
    • • Taboo word-neutral word in sentence, or taboo word-word pairs (Guillet and Arndt, 2009)
  • No effect of emotion

  • Source Memory
    • • Scene-task association (color vs. visual complexity judgment) (Sharot and Yonelinas, 2008)
    • • Paired scene-location (Mather et al., 2009)
  • Paired design
    • • Central neutral word-peripheral emotional/neutral word (Sharot and Phelps, 2004)
  • Source memory
    • • Word, picture-task (animacy vs. commonness) (Kensinger and Schacter, 2006a)
    • • Word-task (seen vs. heard) (Cook et al., 2007)
    • • Scene-color frame (Rimmele et al., 2011)
    • • Scene-locations (set of 4 scenes in 1/8 locations (Mather et al., 2006)
    • • Face-location (Mather and Knight, 2008)
  • Scene context
    • • Emotional item embedded in scene, impaired detailed memory for scene
      • ◦ (Kensinger et al., 2007)
      • ◦ (Christianson et al., 1991)
    • • Neutral peripheral object embedded in emotional scene; binding of scene-object
      • ◦ (Touryan et al., 2007)
      • ◦ (Rimmele et al., 2011)
    • • Temporal context: non-predictive preceding neutral item (Knight and Mather, 2009)
  • Paired designs
    • • Word-word pairs (Pierce and Kensinger, 2011)
    • • Sound-digit, face-hat pairs (Mather and Knight, 2008)
    • • Picture-shape pairs (Nashiro and Mather, 2011)