Exploring the role of visual imagery in the recall of emotional autobiographical memories

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Otenen, Ege and Aydın, Çağla (2023) Exploring the role of visual imagery in the recall of emotional autobiographical memories. In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia

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Abstract

A large body of evidence demonstrates that emotion impacts memory. Although visual information dominates emotional memories, previous studies have not examined the role of visual imagery as an individual difference variable in the representation of emotional memories. This study examines the role of visual imagery skills (namely, object and spatial imagery) on emotional memories. Participants (N = 115) recalled positive, negative, and neutral events in response to the cue words and then rated the phenomenological characteristics of each event. Event accounts were coded for episodic detail categories (event, place, perceptual, time, emotion-thought details). The results showed that visual imagery skills contributed to the remembrance of the episodic details of positive memories and the phenomenology of both positive and negative events. Overall, this study emphasizes the importance of considering the individual differences in memory research and highlights the differences between emotional and neutral events.
Item Type: Papers in Conference Proceedings
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: Çağla Aydın
Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2023 16:17
Last Modified: 17 Sep 2023 16:17
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/47962

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