Destination memory in schizophrenia: “Did I told Elvis Presley about the thief?”

Haj, Mohamad El; Altman, Rosalie Ariane Eva; Bortolon, Catherine; Capdevielle, Delphine; Raffard, Stéphane

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.12.023

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“…A typical illustration of costs that may result from distortions in destination memory is expecting a report from a colleague when we initially asked another colleague to prepare it. Another consequence of destination memory distortions on social communication is redundancy, that is, the tendency to repeat the same information to the same receiver, a behavior that is often observed in amnesia 2017a). These examples illustrate how important destination memory can be for communication.…”

Section: Jean-louis Dessallesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory

Mahr¹,

Csibra²

2017

Behav Brain Sci

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Short Abstract-We propose a novel account of episodic memory function based on a conceptual and empirical analysis of its role in belief formation. We provide a critique of the view that episodic memory serves future-directed imagination, and argue that the central features of this capacity can instead be explained by the role it plays in human communication. On this view, episodic memory allows us to communicatively support our interpretations of the past by gauging when we can assert epistemic authority. This capacity is ineliminable in justification of, and negotiations about, social commitments established by past interactions.Long Abstract-Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, 'autonoetic' character. Here, we offer a comprehensive characterization of episodic memory in representational terms, and propose a novel functional account on this basis. We argue that episodic memory should be understood as a distinctive epistemic attitude taken towards an event simulation. On this view, episodic memory has a metarepresentational format and should not be equated with beliefs about the past. Instead, empirical findings suggest that the contents of human episodic memory are often constructed in the service of the explicit justification of such beliefs. Existing accounts of episodic memory function that have focused on explaining its constructive character through its role in 'future-oriented mental time travel' neither do justice to its capacity to ground veridical beliefs about the past nor to its representational format. We provide an account of the metarepresentational structure of episodic memory in terms of its role in communicative interaction. The generative nature of recollection allows us to represent and communicate the reasons for why we hold certain beliefs about the past. In this process, autonoesis corresponds to the capacity to determine when and how to assert epistemic authority in making claims about the past. A domain where such claims are indispensable are human social engagements. Such engagements commonly require the justification of entitlements and obligations, which is often possible only by explicit reference to specific past events.

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Section: Jean-louis Dessallesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory

Mahr¹,

Csibra²

2017

Behav Brain Sci

233

152

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“…Supporting this second hypothesis, neuroimaging studies have showed that long-term episodic memory deficits in schizophrenia were associated with abnormal recruitment of the hippocampus (Herbener, 2009;Ongür et al, 2006), which contributes to scene construction through the processing of spatial information and the binding of disparate elements into a coherent scene (Addis and Schacter, 2008;Hassabis et al, 2007). In addition, patients with schizophrenia have been found to have severe difficulty in integrating peripheral features into a coherent representation of a scene in working memory (Bazin et al, 2000;Cohen et al, 1999), and in identifying source and destination memory (Brébion et al, 2002;El Haj et al, 2017). This deficit could hinder the formation of an integrated representations of the current situation or scene (Altamura et al, 2013;Danion et al, 1999), thus preventing patients from experiencing coherent mental time travel later on (Rubin et al, 2019).…”

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Unraveling the role of retrieval deficits in autobiographical memory impairment in schizophrenia: A comparison of involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories

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Berna

Danion

et al. 2021

Schizophrenia Research

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Patients with schizophrenia show severe autobiographical memory impairment, thought to reflect retrieval deficits caused by executive dysfunction. However, prior research has focused exclusively on strategic (voluntary) retrieval, and ignored involuntary retrieval resulting from automatic and associative processes, involving minimal cognitive control. We report two studies with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, (Ns= 40 and 50 respectively) comparing their impairment in involuntary versus voluntary autobiographical memory. We use two different methodologies, not previously used in schizophrenia research: a naturalistic study involving real-life data and an experimental setup. Both studies consistently showed that involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories were similarly impaired in schizophrenia. The absence of interaction effects between group and retrieval suggests that schizophrenic patients did not benefit from memory tasks involving little retrieval effort.These findings suggest that autobiographical memory impairment in schizophrenia are not caused by problems with self-initiated voluntary retrieval, but instead likely reflect encoding or binding deficits.

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“…Destination memory assessment and response recording were controlled with the software package Psychopy (Peirce, 2007) coupled with a laptop computer and a 17‐inch LCD display. Procedures replicated previous research on destination memory (Gopie et al ., 2010; Gopie & Macleod, 2009; El Haj, Altman, Bortolon, Capdevielle & Raffard, 2017; Wilu Wilu, Coello & El Haj, 2018). They included a study phase, a distractor task and a recognition phase (see Fig.…”

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Attractive memory: High destination memory for attractive faces

Haj

Ndobo

2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Research has demonstrated that destination memory (i.e., the ability to remember to whom information was previously told) can be influenced by characteristics (e.g., emotional expressions and age) of the destination. Building on this literature, we investigated whether destination memory can be influenced by the attractiveness of the destination. We invited participants to give information on attractive faces, unattractive faces, or neither‐attractive‐nor‐unattractive faces. On a recognition test, they were invited to decide to whom each piece of information had been previously told. Results demonstrated higher destination memory (1) for attractive faces than for neither‐attractive‐nor‐unattractive faces, and (2) for unattractive faces than for neither‐attractive‐nor‐unattractive faces. We attribute the higher destination memory for attractive and unattractive destinations to their distinctiveness compared with neutrally attractive destinations. We also provide some attentional explanations for the high memory for attractive and unattractive destinations.

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Destination memory in schizophrenia: “Did I told Elvis Presley about the thief?”

Cited by 17 publications

References 68 publications

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory

Unraveling the role of retrieval deficits in autobiographical memory impairment in schizophrenia: A comparison of involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories

Attractive memory: High destination memory for attractive faces

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