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Arousal-Biased Competition in Perception and Memory
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Our everyday surroundings besiege us with information. The battle is for a share of our limited attention and memory, with the brain selecting the winners and discarding the losers. Previous research shows that both bottom–up and top–down factors bias competition in favor of high priority stimuli. We propose that arousal during an event increases this bias both in perception and in long-term memory of the event. Arousal-biased competition theory provides specific predictions about when arousal will enhance memory for events and when it will impair it, which accounts for some puzzling contradictions in the emotional memory literature.
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“Furthermore, the outcome of this competitive process is ‘ biased ’ by top-down (e.g. current goals), as well as bottom-up in fl uences (e.g. salience, arousal; for a review see Mather & Sutherland, 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mather, M., & Sutherland, M. R.
- Venue
- Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 114-133
- ISSN
- 1745-6916 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-6924
- OpenAlex
- W2110745711
- Cited by
- 926
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 19.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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