A paired-associate task (word-CVC) performed by 40 subjects confirmed that associates to active emotional words were less well remembered than associates to neutral words or pleasant or unpleasant ones. Results are interpreted as satisfactorily explained by differences in the activation of network nodes if such differences were in turn affected by the arousal characteristic of the words.
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