Fig. 1.

Diagram of the scanned tasks. During the AM conditions, the participants remembered highly emotional personal memories, by focusing either on emotional (Emotion focus) or on non-emotional contextual (Context focus) details of their recollections. Then, participants rated each recollected memory for emotional intensity, vividness and reliving, on 5-point Likert scales (1 = very low, 5 = very high). During the SM control condition, participants generated as many exemplars from a given semantic category as possible, and then rated each of them for vividness, difficulty and number of items on 5-point Likert scales.