title: Arousal-Enhanced Location Memory for Pictures.
abstract: Four experiments revealed arousal-enhanced location memory for pictures. After an incidental encoding task, participants were more likely to remember the locations of positive and negative arousing pictures than the locations of non-arousing pictures, indicating better binding of location to picture. This arousal-enhanced binding effect did not have a cost for the binding of nearby pictures to their locations. Thus, arousal can enhance binding of an arousing picture's content to its location without interfering with picture-location binding for nearby pictures. In addition, arousal-enhanced picture-location memory binding is not just a side effect of enhanced memory for the picture itself, as it occurs both when recognition memory is good and when it is poor.
authors.affiliation: Mara Mather and Kathryn Nesmith, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
authors.forename: Mara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mather
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nesmith