Recall of neutral words

We hypothesized that in the MDD group, exposure to the negative prime cue would result in better recall of the subsequent word list compared to exposure to the positive prime cue. Furthermore, we predicted that the impact of the emotional prime cue on memory recall would be more pronounced when presented during the encoding stage compared to the retrieval stage.

For the encoding condition, in the MDD group we found a significant difference indicating better word recalling for the negative compared to the positive video valance condition. In the HC group there was no significant difference between the two video valence conditions. For the retrieval condition, the results revealed no video valence X group interaction.