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A 3 x 2 x 5 ANOVA with the repeated measures factors of emotion
and scene component and between participants factor of experiment for general
recognition revealed a significant main effect of scene component (F(1,85) =
145.94, MSe = 8.91, p < .001, partial eta 2 = .63) and a significant main effect
of emotion (F(2,170) = 4.82, MSe = 0.10, p < .01, partial eta 2 = .05). The main
effect of experiment was not significant [F(4,85) = 0.48, MSe = 0.01, p = .75,
partial eta 2 = .02]. The interaction between scene component and experiment
was not significant [F(4,85) = 0.46, MSe = 0.03, p = .77, partial eta 2 = .02] and
nor was the interaction between emotion and experiment [F(8,170) = 0.35, MSe =
0.01, p = .95, partial eta 2 = .02]. The interaction between scene component and
emotion was significant (F(2,170) = 18.41, MSe = 0.30, p < .001, partial eta 2 =
.18). The interaction between scene component, emotion and experiment was
not significant [F(8,170) = 1.02, MSe = 0.02, p = .42, partial eta 2 = .05]. Planned
contrasts revealed the greater general recognition of backgrounds initially
presented with neutral than emotional objects was approaching significance
[F(1,89) = 3.75, p = .06] and there was significantly worse general recognition
for backgrounds initially presented with negative than positive objects (F(1,89) =
15.16, p < .001). Planned contrasts revealed significantly greater general
recognition of emotional than neutral objects (F(1,89) = 20.94, p < .001) but no
significant difference in the general recognition of positive and negative
objects [F(1,89) = 0.63, p = .43].
To fully investigate the emotional influence on specific and general
recognition of objects and backgrounds of scenes we conducted bonferroni
corrected t-tests (see Table 5.9). These confirmed the same pattern of results
for specific and general recognition. There was significantly enhanced
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