Editing Recall (memory) (section)

===Attention===
The effect of [[attention]] on memory recall has surprising results. It seems that the only time attention largely affects memory is during the encoding phase. During this phase, performing a parallel task can severely impair retrieval success.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Craik | first1 = F.I. | last2 = Naveh-Benjamin | first2 = M. | last3 = Ishaik | first3 = G. | last4 = Anderson | first4 = N.D. | year = 2000 | title = Divided Attention During Encoding and Retrieval: Differential Control Effects? | journal = Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition | volume = 26 | issue = 6| pages = 1744–1749 | doi=10.1037/0278-7393.26.6.1744| pmid = 11185794 }}</ref> It is believed that this phase requires much attention to properly encode the information at hand, and thus a distractor task does not allow proper input and reduces the amount of information learned.

One's attention to words is impacted by emotion grasping vocabulary. Negative and positive words are better recalled than neutral words that are spoken.<ref name="Gotoh, F. 2012">{{cite journal | last1 = Gotoh | first1 = F | year = 2012 | title = Affective valence of words impacts recall from auditory working memory | journal = Journal of Cognitive Psychology | volume = 24 | issue = 2| pages = 117–124 | doi = 10.1080/20445911.2011.589380 | s2cid = 144601616 }}</ref> Many different ways that attention is focused on hearing what the speaker has to say are the inflection of the presenter's voice in a sad, content, or frustrated sound or in the use of words that are close to the heart.<ref name="Gotoh, F. 2012"/> A study was conducted to observe if the use of emotional vocabulary was a key receptor of recall memory. The groups were put into the same lecture halls and given the same speakers, but the results came back to determine that the inflection and word choice recalled by the listeners concluded that emotional words, phrases, and sounds are more memorable than neutral speakers.<ref name="Gotoh, F. 2012"/>

Recall memory is linked with instincts and mechanisms. In order to remember how an event happened, to learn from it or avoid an agitator, connections are made with emotions. For instance, if a speaker is very calm and neutral, the effectiveness of encoding memory is very low and listeners get the gist of what the speaker is discussing. On the other hand, if a speaker is shouting and/or using emotionally driven words, listeners tend to remember key phrases and the meaning of the speech.<ref name="Gotoh, F. 2012"/> This is full access of the fight or flight mechanism all people have functioning in the brain, but based on what triggers this mechanism will lead to better recall of it. People tend to focus their attention on cues that are loud, very soft, or something unusual. This makes the auditory system pick up the differences in regular speaking and meaningful speech, when something significant is spoken in the discussion people home in on the message at that part of the speech but tend to lose the other part of the discussion.<ref name="Gotoh, F. 2012"/> Our brains sense differences in speech and when those differences occur the brain encodes that part of speech into memory and the information can be recalled for future reference.