Autobiographical Memory – Page 2

A short cut to the past: Cueing via concrete objects improves autobiographical memory retrieval in Alzheimer’s disease patients

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 113-122 Abstract “Older adults diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have difficulties accessing autobiographical memories. However, this deficit tends to spare memories dated to earlier parts of their lives, and may partially reflect retrieval deficits rather than complete memory loss. Introducing a novel paradigm, the present study examines whether autobiographical memory recall can […]

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Remembering and imagining alternative versions of the personal past

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 170-179 Abstract “Although autobiographical memory and episodic simulations recruit similar core brain regions, episodic simulations engage additional neural recruitment in the frontoparietal control network due to greater demands on constructive processes. However, previous functional neuroimaging studies showing differences in remembering and episodic simulation have focused on veridical retrieval of past experiences,

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Semanticized autobiographical memory and the default – executive coupling hypothesis of aging

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 37-43 Abstract “As we age, the architecture of cognition undergoes a fundamental transition. Fluid intellectual abilities decline while crystalized abilities remain stable or increase. This shift has a profound impact across myriad cognitive and functional domains, yet the neural mechanisms remain under-specified. We have proposed that greater connectivity between

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Two years later – Revisiting autobiographical memory representations in vmPFC and hippocampus

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 159-169 Abstract “A long-standing question in memory neuroscience concerns how and where autobiographical memories of personal experiences are represented in the brain. In a previous high resolution multivoxel pattern analysis fMRI study, we examined two week old (recent) and ten year old (remote) autobiographical memories (Bonnici et al., 2012, J. Neurosci. 32:16982–16991). We

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Modulation of sensorimotor circuits during retrieval of negative Autobiographical Memories: Exploring the impact of personality dimensions

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 190-196 Abstract “Autobiographical Memory (AM) retrieval refers to recollection of experienced past events. Previous Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that presentation of emotional negative stimuli affects human motor cortexexcitability resulting in larger motor evoked potentials (MEPs). Up to date no TMS studies have been carried out in order to investigate the

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The precuneus and hippocampus contribute to individual differences in the unfolding of spatial representations during episodic autobiographical memory

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychology, Volume 110, February 2018, 123-133 Abstract “Spatial information is a central aspect of episodic autobiographical memory(EAM). Space-based theories of memory, including cognitive map and scene construction models, posit that spatial reinstatement is a required process during early event recall. Spatial information can be represented from both allocentric (third-person) and egocentric (first-person) perspectives during EAM, with egocentric

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The life stories of adults with amnesia: Insights into the contribution of the medial temporal lobes to the organization of autobiographical memory

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 84-91 Abstract “Autobiographical memories are not stored in isolation but rather are organized into life chapters, higher-order knowledge structures that represent major themes conveying the arc of one’s life. Neuropsychological studies have revealed that both episodic memory and some aspects of personal semantic memory are impaired in adults with medial temporal lobe (MTL) damage. However,

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Evolution of autobiographical memory impairments in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia – A longitudinal neuroimaging study

Neuropsychologia

Published in: Neuropsychologia, Volume 110, February 2018, 14-25 Abstract “Compromised autobiographical memory (ABM) retrieval is well established in dementia, attributable to degeneration of a core memory brain network. It remains unclear, however, how the progressive spread of atrophy with advancing disease severity impacts ABM retrieval across life epochs. To this end, we conducted a longitudinal study of recent and remote ABM

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Networks of self-defining memories as a contributing factor to emotional openness

Cognition and Emotion

Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 363-370 Abstract “Emotional openness is characterised by a capacity to tolerate threatening self-relevant material and an interest towards new emotional situations. We investigated how specific networks of memories could be an important contributing factor to emotional openness. At Phase 1, participants completed measures of personality traits and

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