- mild flashbulb immediacy

(…) Since words such as "sorrow" or "comfort" may be more likely to be associated with autobiographical experiences or self-introspection than neutral words such as “shadow”, autobiographical elaboration may explain the memory enhancement of non-arousing positive or negative items. Autobiographical elaboration is known to benefit memory by creating links between the processed stimuli, and the self, for example, deciding whether a word would describe the personal self. Memory formed through autobiographical elaboration is enhanced as compared to items processed for meaning, but not in relation to the self. The retrieval of information is more effective when the emotional state at the time of retrieval is similar to the emotional state at the time of encoding. Thus, the probability of remembering an event can be enhanced by evoking the emotional state experienced during its initial processing. Emotion has been found to modulate the magnitude of the visual extinction deficit, so that items that signal emotional relevance are more likely to be processed in the presence of competing distractors than nonemotional items. If a person gives more thought to central details in an arousing event, memory for such information is likely to be enhanced. These processes could also disrupt consolidation of memories for peripheral details. Ringraziamenti.
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