1. Motivational modulation of strategy choice and memory formation duringemotion regulation
- Author
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Chiew, Kimberly S., Ferron, Sloan E.I., Asmar, Alyssa J., and Herrera, Lyneé A.
- Abstract
Robust evidence suggests that motivation increases both cognitive effort and memory encoding.Despite growing recognition that emotion regulation may be a motivated process, motivationaleffects on the cognitive mechanisms underlying emotion regulation and subsequent memory forencountered stimuli remain largely uncharacterized. We manipulated extrinsic and intrinsicmotivation to down-regulate negative affect in an emotion regulation paradigm includingemotional and neutral stimuli. Participants were trained in two regulation strategies (cognitivereappraisal and distraction) and reported trial-by-trial strategy use. Both extrinsic and intrinsicmotivation were associated with decreased negative affect and a shift in regulation strategy use.Specifically, use of reappraisal (a cognitively effortful strategy) increased with motivation. 24-hour recognition memory for presented stimuli was modulated by both emotional content andmotivation condition. These findings suggest that interacting motivational and cognitiveprocesses during emotion regulation can adaptively shape subsequent memory for theencountered stimuli, with implications for both cognitive and clinical science.
- Published
- 2023