The effect of sexual arousal and emotional arousal on working memory

Figures & data

Figure 1. The flow of a trial in the 3-back working memory task.

Figure 2. The sequence of events that the participant experienced in Experiment 1.

Table 1. The means and SDs of accuracy rate and reaction time in the 3-back task in the four conditions in Experiment 1

	Neutral		Positive emotion		Negative emotion		Sexual arousal		F(3, 69)	p	η^2
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Accuracy rate (%):	62.8	7.5	67.7	7.2	78.2	8.9	74.2	9.7	81.698	< 0.001	0.780
Reaction time (ms):	609.97	118.58	616.66	87.31	619.72	81.40	614.68	102.36	0.078	0.972	0.003

Table 2. The means and SDs of accuracy rate and reaction time in the three 3-back tasks using different types of stimuli in Experiment 2

	Alphabetical		Colour		Pictorial		F(2, 52)	p	η^2
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Accuracy rate (%):	69.6	10.5	74.2	10.7	72.8	11.7	9.791	< 0.001	0.274
Reaction time (ms):	613.05	90.22	611.39	81.03	620.69	67.96	0.641	0.531	0.024