负性情绪与工作记忆的关系:认知神经科学新取向

The Relationship between Negative Emotion and Working Memory:The New Direction for Cognitive Neuroscience

情绪与工作记忆关系的研究成为近年来认知神经科学领域的重要课题。文章从加工效能理论、认知神经取向的生理研究技术和脑损伤研究三个方面回顾了负性情绪与工作记忆研究的进展和存在的问题。文章指出,负性情绪与工作记忆有共同的脑机制,能抑制工作记忆正常工作,并且对完成词语工作记忆任务和空间工作记忆任务的影响不同,强调了前额叶皮质对情绪调控和工作记忆功能的影响。

The issue of the relationship between emotion and working memory is becoming a focus in cognitive neuroscience in latest years.This article reviewes the recent progress and problems remained on negative emotion and working memory from the following aspects: the processing efficiency theory,physical research methods and brain impairment researches.The article points out that negative emotion shares the same neural basis with working memory and impairs its normal function.Visual and spatial working memory sep...