Psychology: Techniques and Application

Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2026, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (4): 193-205.

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The Regulatory Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Cues on the Emotional Enhancement Effect of Memory in Working Memory

  

  1. School of Psychology, Shanxi Normal University
  • Accepted:2025-12-10 Online:2026-03-19 Published:2026-03-19

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Previous studies have documented the emotional enhancement effect in working memory. However, few studies have explored the impact of negative emotion on working memory from the perspective of cues, and the attentional mechanisms underlying cues’ regulation of the emotional enhancement effect in working memory remain unclear. The present study employed a delayed matching paradigm and introduced retrospective cues to investigate the influence of negative emotion on working memory and the regulatory mechanism of cues therein. Results showed that under high cognitive load conditions, participants responded more slowly to negative images; however, after cue regulation, the difference in response times to images of different valences became non-significant. Further experiments revealed that participants’ response times to both target-relevant and target-irrelevant items were significantly shorter than those of the control group. These findings indicate that negative emotion disrupts working memory, and attentional cues can mitigate such disruption by enhancing the representation of task-relevant items.

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