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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Learning & Memory, 11(26), p. 455-459, 2019

DOI: 10.1101/lm.049734.119

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Better memory for intrinsic versus extrinsic details underlies the enhanced recollective experience of negative events

Journal article published in 2019 by Mariela Mihaylova, Patrik Vuilleumier ORCID, Ulrike Rimmele
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Why we remember emotional events with an increased subjective sense of remembering (SSR) is unclear. SSR for neutral events is linked to memory for various kinds of details. Using the Remember/Know paradigm, participants provided written justifications of their Remember responses indicating what they specifically recollected about a negative or neutral photo seen during encoding. Crucially, Remember responses for negative photos were more often linked to memory for details of the stimuli (intrinsic details) versus details related to external associations (extrinsic details) or emotional reaction at encoding, suggesting that memory for intrinsic details underlies the enhanced SSR of negative stimuli.