Affect and Memory in Real Life
Evaluating the Utility of Interactive Ambulatory Assessment
Abstract
Negative affect caused by depression is known to produce cognitive failures during everyday activities. However, traditional neurobehavioral laboratory paradigms that assess affect-memory interactions are critical with respect to their ecological validity. To investigate the effects of negative affect on memory processes in everyday life, we applied a new interactive measurement method in order to detect heart rate increases without accompanying physical activity and to initiate stimulus presentations depending on the specific emotional state in healthy participants. Psychophysiological instability and the intensity of psychophysiological arousal at the time of encoding proved to be important predictors of memory performance in negatively valenced situations. We suggest that multimodal ambulatory methods provide an interesting new opportunity for assessing interactions of emotion and cognition in real life.
Negativer Affekt im Kontext einer depressiven Erkrankung ist häufig assoziiert mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen im Alltag. Die traditionellen neurobehavioralen Untersuchungsparadigmen sind jedoch hinsichtlich ihrer ökologischen Validität als kritisch zu bewerten. Diese Untersuchung verfolgt das Ziel, die Auswirkungen negativer Affekte auf Gedächtnisleistungen in Alltagssituationen zu untersuchen. Es wurde eine neue interaktive Messmethode angewendet, die es ermöglicht, Herzfrequenzerhöhungen, die nicht von einem Anstieg körperlicher Aktivität verursacht werden, zu detektieren und Stimuluspräsentationen in Abhängigkeit vom aktuellen emotionalen Zustand zu initiieren. Psychophysiologische Instabilität sowie die Intensität psychophysiologischen Arousals zum Zeitpunkt der Encodierung erwiesen sich als wichtige Prädiktoren der Gedächtnisleistung gesunder Probanden in affektiven Situationen mit negativer Valenz. Das multimodale, ambulante Monitoring stellt eine vielversprechende neue Methode zur Erfassung der Wechselwirkungen von Emotion und Kognition im Alltagsleben dar.
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