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For the purposes of this chapter, emotion will be defined as a valenced representation of knowledge which results in changes in cognitive, conative and response systems, which may in some cases be mediated by motivational changes. It is invariably accompanied by changes in physiological systems. This definition distinguishes it from cognition which refers to the non-valenced structuring, representation and organization of knowledge, which may then be manipulated consciously or unconsciously. Before considering the changes in attention and memory with emotion and motivation, I want to make a case for considering motivation and emotion as having enough commonalities to justify treating them alike.
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Warburton, D.M. (1988). Emotional and Motivational Determinants of Attention and Memory. In: Hamilton, V., Bower, G.H., Frijda, N.H. (eds) Cognitive Perspectives on Emotion and Motivation. NATO ASI Series, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2792-6_8
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