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.

在这项复制研究中，重新研究了先前报道的图像记忆中情绪刺激的优先顺序（Kuhbandner et al . 2011. Psychol. Sci. 22 , 695–700. (doi:10.1177/0956797611406445)）。因此，对在视野外围短暂呈现的视觉图像组进行了标志性记忆的回忆测量。使用部分报告技术，在图像指向要调用的目标的位置后，以不同的延迟呈现中心箭头。在直接复制（实验 1， n = 41）中，参与者被要求口头报告提示图像（请注意，由于 COVID-19 大流行，无法达到整个计划的样本量），而在扩展实验（实验2， n = 55），使用视觉识别测试来测试标志性记忆。这两项实验都证明了从标志性记忆中优先选择情感目标，与中性目标相比，消极和积极目标的言语回忆和视觉识别准确性更高。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，目标价和干扰价主要影响初始可用性（在口头回忆的情况下）和注意选择，而标志性记忆的衰减随着提示延迟的增加而对情感意义不太敏感。