Simultaneous manipulation of emotion and working memory load distorts temporal distance memory.
Although emotion and working memory load have been demonstrated to distort the perception of individual temporal durations, the impact of these factors on memories for elapsed time, in particular within the context of event sequences, remains underexplored. Much existing work on the effects of emoti...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 2228 - 2244 |
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