Positive Affect Improves Working Memory: Implications for Controlled Cognitive Processing

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, Sujin, ISEN, Alice M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: positive affect; controlled processes; working memory; short-term memory; inhibitory control; Cognition and Perception; Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1131; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2387/viewcontent/PositiveAffectImprovesWorkingMemory_2013_CE.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study examined the effects of positive affect on working memory (WM) and short-term memory (STM). Given that WM involves both storage and controlled processing and that STM primarily involves storage processing, we hypothesised that if positive affect facilitates controlled processing, it shoul...