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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science

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  • Memory for salient events is influenced by emotions and unexpected outcomes.
  • Affective responses and prediction errors are known modulators of decision-making and memory.
  • The role of dynamic "affective surprise" as a memory learning signal is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how affective surprise, derived from dynamic changes in affective states, influences long-term episodic memory.
  • To introduce and validate a novel computation for affective surprise based on valence and arousal.
  • To explore the impact of affective surprise on temporal context memory and item recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a computational measure of affective surprise using continuous participant ratings of valence and arousal.
  • Reanalyzed a published dataset and conducted an independent replication study.
  • Participants encoded item sequences while listening to emotional music, followed by affect rating and memory assessment after 24 hours.

Main Results:

  • Greater affective surprise enhanced memory for the temporal occurrence of items within a sequence.
  • Deviations from recent affective history also improved temporal context memory.
  • Effects of affective surprise on item recognition memory were inconsistent across the two studies.

Conclusions:

  • Affective surprise enhances the binding of items to their temporal contexts in episodic memory.
  • Valence-related affective surprise may function as a learning signal impacting memory formation.
  • The findings highlight the role of dynamic emotional changes in shaping long-term memory for event sequences.