Sharot et al 2007
In the study, this significant event was the focus.
What is the Challenger space shuttle explosion?
Both studies contribute to our understanding of this memory phenomenon, which suggests that significant emotional events are remembered more vividly but not always accurately.
What is flashbulb memory?
Emotions are often processed in this part of the brain.
What is the amygdala?
This cognitive process is often heightened by emotional arousal, which can lead to more vivid and lasting memories.
What is encoding?
Sharot used this technique to measure brain activity patterns associated with emotional memory.
What is fMRI?
This study by Neisser and Harsch questioned the reliability of these types of memories, which are thought to be vivid and detailed.
What are flashbulb memories?
Both sets of researchers were interested in how this part of the brain plays a crucial role in emotional memory formation, though their findings highlighted different aspects of its involvement.
What is the amygdala?
This type of emotion can enhance the details we remember about an event.
What is a strong/intense emotion?
It's the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses, often influenced by emotions.
What is perception?
This term describes the memory phenomenon investigated in the study, which refers to the vivid recollection of an emotionally significant event.
What is Flashbulb memory?
According to Neisser and Harsch, this factor did not guarantee the accuracy of participants' memories of the Challenger explosion.
Emotional intensity or personal significance.
This cognitive bias, highlighted by both studies, describes the tendency to remember or believe information that fits one's emotions or beliefs, often at the expense of accuracy.
What is confirmation bias?
This term describes the effect of an individual's emotional state at the time of encoding a memory on the ability to later recall that information.
What is mood-congruent memory or state-dependent memory?
This cognitive function involves maintaining and manipulating information over short periods, often used in learning, reasoning, and comprehension.
What is working memory?
Sharot found increased activity in the amygdala when participants recalled events with this type of emotional charge.
What is high personal relevance or personal experience of the event?
This cognitive phenomenon, which Neisser and Harsch's study highlighted, involves altering past memories to fit a current narrative
What is memory reconstruction?
Sharot and Neisser and Harsch found that emotional intensity can affect memory recall, but they showed that details can be distorted over time due to this cognitive process.
What is memory reconstruction?
According to this theory, emotionally charged events are more likely to be remembered than neutral events.
In cognitive psychology, this term refers to the unintended influence of prior knowledge on subsequent memory tests, often highlighted when emotions are involved.
What is the misinformation effect?
According to Sharot, participants who were closer to the World Trade Center during the attacks had more of these in their brains, which correlated with an increased vividness of their memories.
What are amygdala activations?
Neisser and Harsch suggested that the process of remembering is not like a video recording but is instead influenced by these kinds of information or personal beliefs.
What are schemas, new information, and/or current knowledge?
Neisser and Harsch and Sharot both examined how these two components of the memory process are differently affected by traumatic events.
What are central vs. peripheral details?
This theory suggests that emotions can impact the processing of an event, leading to a change in recall accuracy of the event.
What is the emotion-induced trade-off effect?
This cognitive bias involves remembering only facts or details that are emotionally charged while forgetting the mundane.
What is affective bias?