Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Remembering events is affected by personal emotional status. We examined the psychological status, personalfactors, and social factor of undergraduate students (N=64) and got summaries of a story, Chronicle of a Death Foretold fromthem. As transfer learning, we collected 38,265 movie review data to train a sentimental analysis model based on convolutionalneural network, using the model to score each summary. The results of CES-D and PANAS show the relationship betweenemotion and memory retrieval; depressed people have shown a tendency of representing a story more negatively, and seemedless expressive. People with full of emotion have retrieved their memory more expressively, using more negative words. Thecontributions of this study can be summarized as follows: First, we lighten the relationship between emotion and its effects onstoring or retrieving memories. Second, we suggest objective methods to evaluate the intensity of emotion in words, using asentimental analysis model.