In this replication study, the previously reported prioritization of emotional stimuli in iconic memory (Kuhbandner et al. 2011. Psychol. Sci.22, 695–700. (doi:10.1177/0956797611406445)) was reinvestigated. Therefore, recall from iconic memory was measured for sets of visual images that were briefly presented in the periphery of the visual field. Using a partial-report technique, a central arrow presented at varying delays after the images was pointing to the location of the to-be-recalled target. In the direct replication (experiment 1, n = 41), participants were asked to verbally report the cued image (note that the entire planned sample size could not be reached owing to the COVID-19 pandemic), and in an extension experiment (experiment 2, n = 55), iconic memory was tested using a visual recognition test. Both experiments demonstrated prioritized selection of emotional targets from iconic memory, with higher verbal recall and visual recognition accuracy for negative and positive targets compared to neutral targets. In addition, we found that the presence of emotional distractors in the set interfered with the selection of neutral targets, thus confirming a trend that was observed in the original study. Exponential decay curves further revealed that both target and distractor valence primarily affected initial availability (in case of verbal recall) and attentional selection, whereas the decay of iconic memory with increasing cue delay was less sensitive to the emotional meaning.

在此复制的研究中，在标志性存储器情绪刺激的先前报道的优先级（Kuhbandner等人2011年。心理学科学。22，695-700（DOI：10.1177 / 0956797611406445））的重新研究。因此，针对短暂出现在视野边缘的视觉图像集，测量了从标志性记忆中的召回率。使用部分报告技术，在图像指向要调用的目标位置之后，中心箭头会以不同的延迟出现。在直接复制中（实验1，n = 41），要求参与者口头报告提示的图像（请注意，由于COVID-19大流行，无法达到计划的样本总数），在扩展实验中（实验） 2，n = 55），使用视觉识别测试测试了标志性记忆。两项实验均表明，从标志性记忆中优先选择情感目标，与中立目标相比，负目标和正目标的口头回忆和视觉识别准确度更高。此外，我们发现集合中情绪干扰因素的存在会干扰中性目标的选择，从而证实了原始研究中观察到的趋势。指数衰减曲线进一步表明，目标价和干扰价均主要影响初始可利用性（在口头回忆的情况下）和注意选择，而随着提示延迟的增加，标志性记忆的衰减对情感含义不那么敏感。