| Suslow, 19983030 Suslow T. Alexithymia and automatic affective processing. Eur J Person.1998;12:433-43.
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Priming |
Individuals with heightened difficulty in describing feelings and externally oriented thinking exhibited greater emotional priming effects. |
| Suslow and Junhanns, 20023131 Suslow T, Junghanns K. Impairments of emotion situation priming in alexithymia. Pers Individ Dif. 2002;32:541-50.
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Priming |
High-alexithymia individuals exhibited negative priming effects. |
| Vermeulen et al., 20062525 Vermeulen N, Luminet O, Corneille O. Alexithymia and the automatic processing of affective information: Evidence from the affective priming paradigm. Cogn Emot. 2006;20:64-91.
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Priming |
High-alexithymia individuals showed less priming effects when targets were preceded by angry faces. |
| Brandt et al. 20152828 Brandt L, Pintzinger NM, Tran US. Abnormalities in automatic processing of illness-related stimuli in self-rated alexithymia. PLoS One 2015;10: e0129905.
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Priming |
High-alexithymia was associated with greater emotional priming when targets were illness-related. |
| Vermeulen et al. 20102626 Vermeulen N, Toussaint J, Luminet O. The influence of alexithymia and music on the incidental memory for emotion words. Eur J Pers 2010;24: 551-68.
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Recognition |
High-alexithymia individuals recognized fewer happy and angry words, and showed decreased recognition for words encoded while angry music was played. |
| Donges and Suslow, 20153333 Donges U, Suslow, T. Alexithymia and memory for facial emotions. Universitas Psychologica 2015;14(1):103-10.
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Recognition |
Individuals with greater difficulty in describing feelings showed diminished recognition for faces with expressions of fear and anger. |
| Luminet et al. 20062323 Luminet O, Vermeulen N, Demaret C, Bagby RM, Taylor GJ. Alexithymia and levels of processing: Evidence for an overall deficit in remembering emotion words. J ResPers. 2006;40:713-33.
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Remember/know |
Individuals with greater difficulties in identifying feelings showed diminished recall of positive and negative words. |
| Vermeulen and Luminet, 20092424 Vermeulen N, Luminet O. Alexithymia factors and memory performances for neutral and emotional words. Pers Individ Dif. 2009;47:305-9.
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Remember/know |
Individuals with greater difficulties in identifying feelings exhibited lower memory for emotional words, whereas individuals with greater externally oriented thinking showed greater memory for emotional words. |
| Suslow et al.3636 Suslow T, Kersting A, Arolt V. Alexithymia and incidental learning of emotional words. Psychol Rep 2003;93:1003-12.
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Free recall |
Individuals with greater difficulties in identifying feelings showed lower recall of emotional words. |
| Meltzer and Nielson, 20103737 Meltzer MA, Nielson KA. Memory for emotionally provocative words in alexithymia: a role for stimulus relevance. Conscious Cogn. 2010;19: 1062-8.
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Free recall |
High-alexithymia individuals exhibited lower recall of negative words and higher recall of words related to diseases. |
| Dressaire et al. 20142727 Dressaire D, Stone CB, Nielson KA, Guerdoux E, Martin S, Brouillet D, Luminet O. Alexithymia impairs the cognitive control of negative material while facilitating the recall of neutral material in both younger and older adults. Cogn Emot. 2014; 29(3):442-59.
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Free recall |
High-alexithymia individuals exhibited diminished recall of negative words intended to be remembered, and greater recall of negative words intended to be forgotten. |
| Lundh et al. 20024040 Lundh LG, Johnsson A, Sundqvist K, Olsson H. Alexithymia, memory of emotion, emotional awareness, and perfectionism. Emotion 2002;2: 361-79.
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Autobiographical |
There was no correlation between alexithymia and autobiographical memory. |
| Muir et al. 20162929 Muir K, Madill A, Brown C. Individual differences in emotional processing and autobiographical memory: interoceptive awareness and alexithymia in the fading affect bias. Cogn Emot. 2017;31(7):1392-404.
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Autobiographical |
High-alexithymia individuals exhibited a decrease in the typical fading affect bias, showing instead an increase in the forgetting of positive autobiographical memories. |
