Reducing the vividness and emotional impact of distressing autobiographical memories: the importance of modality-specific interference.

摘要: Experimental analogues of post-traumatic stress disorder suggest that loading the visuospatial sketchpad working memory with a concurrent task reduces vividness and associated distress predominantly visual images. The present experiments explicitly tested hypothesis interfering phonological loop could analogously reduce emotional impact auditory In Experiment 1, 30 undergraduates formed non-specific images emotive autobiographical memories while performing designed to load either (eye movements) or (articulatory suppression). Participants reported their be primarily visual, corresponding greater dual-task disruption observed for eye movements. 2 instructed participants form specifically As predicted, articulation reduced intensity ratings extent than did mov...