Investigating emotion and memory Trade-Offs in humans

Trade-offs subserve to achieve compatibility between two compatible yet competing systems at the cost of one another. An automatic attention-allocation and prioritized processing of emotionally salient stimuli in a limited-capacity perceptual system is accompanied with encoding and trade-offs. The encoding thereof may be intentional or incidental. Emotionality adds intentionality to the information to be retained. An emotion-induced memory trade-off leads to better recall for emotional information at the cost of background informations. The tradeoff function directs the attention towards emotional and central information in comparison to non-emotional/background and peripheral informations. However, the exact nature of emotion-induced-trade-off remain can be explored by controlling the non-emotional factors.