title: Valenced cues and contexts have different effects on event-based prospective memory.
abstract: This study examined the separate influence and joint influences on event-based prospective memory task performance due to the valence of cues and the valence of contexts. We manipulated the valence of cues and contexts with pictures from the International Affective Picture System. The participants, undergraduate students, showed higher performance when neutral compared to valenced pictures were used for cueing prospective memory. In addition, neutral pictures were more effective as cues when they occurred in a valenced context than in the context of neutral pictures, but the effectiveness of valenced cues did not vary across contexts that differed in valence. The finding of an interaction between cue and context valence indicates that their respective influence on event-based prospective memory task performance cannot be understood in isolation from each other. Our findings are not consistent with by the prevailing view which holds that the scope of attention is broadened and narrowed, respectively, by positively and negatively valenced stimuli. Instead, our findings are more supportive of the recent proposal that the scope of attention is determined by the motivational intensity associated with valenced stimuli. Consistent with this proposal, we speculate that the motivational intensity associated with different retrieval cues determines the scope of attention, that contexts with different valence values determine participants' task engagement, and that prospective memory task performance is determined jointly by attention scope and task engagement.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Graf
authors: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Yu
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D010775:Photic Stimulation
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