Dissociating Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Emotion on Cognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23696440 |
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| Authors | Florin Dolcos (0000-0003-2230-4139, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ekaterina Denkova (0000-0001-9113-719X, University of Alberta) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0079 |
| OpenAlex | W1534689589 |
| ISBN | 9781118900772 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 59 |
Emotion is a “double‐edged sword” that can either enhance or hinder various aspects of our cognition and behavior. The emotional charge of an event can increase attention to and memory for that event, whereas task‐irrelevant emotional information may lead to increased distraction and impaired performance in ongoing cognitive tasks. These opposing effects of emotion can be identified at different levels, both within the same cognitive process and across different processes, and could also be identified at more general levels, such as in the case of the response to stress. The present review discusses emerging evidence regarding factors that influence opposite effects of emotion on cognition in healthy functioning, and how they may be linked to clinical conditions. These issues are important for understanding mechanisms of emotion‐cognition interactions in healthy functioning and in emotional disturbances, where both of these effects are exacerbated and tend to co‐occur. Overall, the present review highlights the need to consider the various factors that can influence enhancing or impairing effects of emotion on cognition, in studies investigating emotion‐cognition interactions.
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Distraction · Task (project management) · Mental Health Research Topics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Stress Responses and Cortisol
The effects of stress and stress hormones on human cognition
Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain
Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation
Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition
Emotional Arousal and Memory Binding
Emotion and memory narrowing
Arousal-Biased Competition in Perception and Memory
The Amygdala Modulates the Consolidation of Memories of Emotionally Arousing Experiences
Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function
Memory--a Century of Consolidation
Remembering the Details
Feelings of control restore distorted time perception of emotionally charged events
Association learning for emotional harbinger cues
Dissociable effects of conscious emotion regulation strategies on explicit and implicit memory
Emotional stress and eyewitness memory
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