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Merín L, Mateo A, Nieto M, Ros L, Latorre JM. Language and autobiographical memory development from 5 to 12 years: A longitudinal perspective. Mem Cognit 2024:10.3758/s13421-024-01544-5. [PMID: 38443518 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-024-01544-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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The main aim of this study, with two repeated measurements, was to analyze the development of autobiographical memory in a sample of 78 Spanish participants at ages 5 (Time 1; M = 62.43 months, range: 50-74 months) and 12 (Time 2; M = 142.71 months, range: 132-155 months). Data were collected on autobiographical memory and verbal functions. We analyzed the relation between language and autobiographical memory specificity from a longitudinal perspective and assessed the indirect effect of vocabulary in the relationship between age and specific memory at both temporal moments. The results showed that language skills were positively related with autobiographical memory specificity at preschool age, but not at the second measurement. Furthermore, vocabulary scores appear to mediate the relationship between age and autobiographical specificity when children are in the preschool years, but not later. These findings agree with previous research that consider preschool age to be a crucial period for the development of autobiographical memory and its relations with language, but once basic command of language is acquired, linguistic differences impact much less on individual differences in autobiographical specificity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Llanos Merín
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla, La Mancha, Avenida de Almansa 14, 02006, Albacete, Spain
- Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Faculty of Education, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla, La Mancha, Avenida de Almansa 14, 02006, Albacete, Spain.
- Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla, La Mancha, Avenida de Almansa 14, 02006, Albacete, Spain
- Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla, La Mancha, Avenida de Almansa 14, 02006, Albacete, Spain
- Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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Vagni M, Giostra V, Simione L. Evaluating autobiographical skills and their relationship with suggestibility in children: development and validation of the Children Recalling Autobiographical Memory. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1321305. [PMID: 38323159 PMCID: PMC10846070 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1321305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024] Open
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Introduction Autobiographical narrative skills and resistance to suggestibility factors are central aspects in children's testimony. While the assessment of suggestibility relies on standardized questionnaire, no such an instrument exists to reliably assess autobiographical skills in children. This aspect is further important when considering that the development of such skills seems to be related to the suggestibility, that is, suggestibility would be reduced in presence of higher autobiographical skills. However, no direct test of this relationship is available in literature, also due to the lack of quantitative instruments for assessing autobiographical skills. Methods To fulfill both these methodological and theoretical issues, in this study a new tool was validated to measure the main autobiographical narrative skills (Where, What, When, Who, and How) in relation to both Retrospective Memory and Prospective Memory: the Children Recalling Autobiographical Memory (CRAM). We recruited a sample of 321 children aged 7-16 years. Results and discussion The result of the EFA analysis showed one-factor model, and revealed also good fit indexes and internal reliability. After validating this new tool, we further used it to test our main hypothesis, that is, children with higher autobiographical memory skills were less vulnerable to interrogative suggestibility as assessed by Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 (GSS2). A hierarchical linear regression model showed a reduction in suggestibility with age and level of autobiographical skills. Moreover, the level of such skills moderate the effect of age, such as only in presence of high or moderate level of autobiographical skills the age significantly reduces the level of suggestibility.
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- Monia Vagni
- Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali Internazionali, UNINT, Università degli Studi Internazionali, Rome, Italy
- Istituto fdi Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, Rome, Italy
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Navarro B, Jimeno MV, Fernández-Aguilar L, Nieto M, Toledano-González A, Cantero MJ, Ros L, Latorre JM. Effects of affectively-loaded childhood-related photos from the IAPS on the induction of involuntary autobiographical memories in young and older adults. Front Psychol 2024; 14:1266758. [PMID: 38282849 PMCID: PMC10811954 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1266758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024] Open
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Objective Aging produces changes in emotional reactivity and the retrieval of autobiographical memories. The main aim of this study was to assess age-related differences, comparing emotion induction and autobiographical memory recall using photos from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) that are thematically related to childhood. Method A cross-sectional observational study was conducted, with the participation of 327 individuals (168 young adults and 159 older adults) with no cognitive impairment and aged between 18 and 88 years. We showed the participants a set of five pictures from the IAPS, the affective content of which was related to childhood. Two of these were considered to be positive images, two negative and one neutral, according to the valence of these pictures in the literature. The main study variables were the reactions associated with emotional valence or pleasure, arousal and dominance, after viewing the photos, and the autobiographical memories retrieved by the participants. Results The younger adults retrieved a larger number of memories than their older counterparts. As regards the responses to the five affective pictures (IAPS) on valence, arousal and dominance (IAPS), statistically significant differences were only found for pictures 2,345 (BlackEye), with a more positive valence in the group of older adults and higher arousal in the young ones, and 2,312 (Mother), with a more positive valence in the group of older persons. A greater number of memories were retrieved for the photos that generated higher levels of pleasure, greater relaxation and greater emotional control. Conclusion Of the variables that may be associated with the elicitation of involuntary autobiographical memories, the most significant are age and a positive stimulus.
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- Beatriz Navarro
- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Medicina de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Medicina de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Medicina de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Unidad de Psicología Cognitiva Aplicada, Instituto de Discapacidades Neurológicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Medicina de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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Dorsolateral prefrontal activation in depressed young adults with and without suicidal ideation during an emotional autobiographical memory task: A fNIRS study. J Affect Disord 2023; 326:216-224. [PMID: 36736791 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Previous studies have proved that there is a strong association between dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and mood symptoms. This study aimed at using functional near-infrared spectroscopy technology to invest brain activity in dlPFC of depressed individuals with and without suicidal ideation during emotional autobiographical memory test, and to understand their differences in brain cognitive mechanisms. It is helpful to improve our ability to predict and subsequently to prevent suicide. METHODS 85 young adults participated in the study by a simple random sampling method, with health control (34participants), depression with suicidal ideation (17participants), and depression without suicidal ideation (34participants). The average oxyhemoglobin in dlPFC of subjects during EAMT was collected by a 53-channel fNIRS imaging device. RESULTS A marginal significant difference was found between three groups in left dlPFC and right dlPFC. Post hoc analysis revealed that: (1) under negative emotion, depression without suicidal ideation group had higher activation than healthy control group in left dlPFC. (2) under positive emotion, depression with suicidal ideation group had lower activation than healthy control in right dlPFC. CONCLUSIONS Results indicated that the depressed individuals with suicidal ideation had some deficits in executive function in right dlPFC, while the depressed adults without suicidal ideation may have mechanism of resource compensatory recruitment in left dlPFC and the dlPFC abnormality involved in the pathophysiology, may localize within left hemisphere. The depressed individuals with and without suicidal ideation had the different mechanisms in dlPFC and fNIRS can be a neuroimaging biomarker characterizing or predicting suicidality in depressed individuals.
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Lam K, Barry TJ, Hallford DJ, Jimeno MV, Solano Pinto N, Ricarte JJ. Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence. JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2022.2083138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
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- School of Law, Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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- School of Education, Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Barry TJ, Hernández-Viadel JV, Fernández D, Ros L, Ricarte JJ, Berna F. Retrieval of negative autobiographical memories is associated with hostile attributions in ambiguous situations amongst people with schizophrenia. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12564. [PMID: 31467374 PMCID: PMC6715746 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49058-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is characterised by difficulty understanding the thoughts and intentions of other people. Misunderstandings could lead people to attribute hostility to others' actions. Theories suggest that we use our autobiographical memories to inform our understanding of other people but no study has examined the relation between memory and hostile attributions in schizophrenia. People with (n = 42) and without (n = 34) schizophrenia diagnoses completed The Ambiguous Intentions and Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ) to assess their tendency to attribute hostility to other people's actions and the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) to assess their ability to recall specific positive and negative autobiographical memories. In linear regressions the interaction between diagnostic group and the proportion of specific negative memories participants retrieved explained significant variance in each AIHQ index. Follow-up correlation analyses showed that participants with schizophrenia who retrieved more negative memories also attributed greater hostility to other people's actions (r = 0.47) and reported that they would respond with greater aggression (r = 0.59). These correlations were in the opposite direction for controls. People with schizophrenia may use their memories for negative past events to understand the actions and intentions of other people, leading to attributions of hostility for otherwise benign actions.
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- Tom J Barry
- Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Department of Psychology, The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain.
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- Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 Place de l'Hopital, Strasbourg, Cedex, France
- INSERM U-1114, 1 Place de l'Hopital, Clinique Psychiatrique, Strasbourg, Cedex, France
- Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine, 4 rue Kirchleger, Strasbourg, France
- FMTS, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Meléndez JC, Redondo R, Escudero J, Satorres E, Pitarque A. Executive Functions, Episodic Autobiographical Memory, Problem-Solving Capacity, and Depression Proposal for a Structural Equations Model. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2019; 32:81-89. [PMID: 30665320 DOI: 10.1177/0891988718824037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The executive functions play an important role in storing and recovering autobiographical memories, especially episodic memories. These types of memories provide information about solutions and experiences from the past that can be utilized as examples in the present when seeking solutions to any problem. In addition, a close relationship between depression and the executive functions has been widely recognized. This study aims to elaborate a structural equations model that empirically supports the relationships among the executive functions, episodic autobiographical memory, and the adaptive capacity to solve problems, taking into account the depressed mood state. In all, 32 healthy elderly people, 32 patients with Parkinson disease, 32 with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and 32 with Alzheimer disease were evaluated. Structural equation models were estimated to test the effects among the constructs. The final model shows adequate fit indexes, thus revealing that an individual's problem-solving capacity will depend on the capacity to access the episodic autobiographical memory, which in turn will depend on the maintenance of executive functioning. In a parallel way, the mood state, and specifically depression, will play a modulator role because when there is depressive symptomatology, some capacities that depend on executive control can be diminished.
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- Juan C Meléndez
- 1 Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain), Valencia, Spain
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- 1 Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain), Valencia, Spain
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- 1 Department of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain), Valencia, Spain
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- 3 Department of Methodology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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