Episodic autobiographical memory in depression: Specificity, autonoetic consciousness, and self-perspective

In search of autobiographical memories: A PET study in the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia

“…This pattern of responses was in line with their difficulty in reporting and reliving episodic details, especially in terms of perceptual and affective details, and their inclination to instead report generic memories. Indeed, in general an observer perspective characterizes semanticized memories (Robinson and Swanson, 1993;Crawley and French, 2005;Nigro & Neisser, 1983;Piolino et al, 2006), detachment from emotional content (D'Argembeau, Comblain & Van der Linden, 2003;Nigro & Neisser, 1983;Lemogne et al, 2006) and from the current self (Libby & Eibach, 2002;Wilson & Ross, 2003). These findings provide some view about the affective and cognitive (goals, A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 21 beliefs) components of memories and self in fv-FTD.…”

Mental imagery of positive and neutral memories: A fMRI study comparing field perspective imagery to observer perspective imagery

“…This could be explained by previous research suggesting that a field perspective is (automatically) adopted when a memory is more congruent with the current self-concept, while observer perspective is more adopted in the case of inconsistency with currently activated self-views (Libby & Eibach, 2002;Wilson & Ross, 2003). Healthy individuals often consider positive memories more in line with a current self, so positive memories are often recalled from a field perspective (Libby & Eibach, 2002;Wilson & Ross, 2003), while (sub-clinical) depressed individuals have a tendency to recall positive memories from an observer perspective (Lemogne et al, 2006;Nelis et al, 2013).…”

Self-centered memories: The reminiscence bump and the self

“…Furthermore, because both self and AM are implicated in clinical depression (Barry, Naus, & Rehm, 2006;Lemogne et al, 2006), research could focus on the distributions of memories cued by positive and negative statements. Rubin and Berntsen (2003) found that reminiscence bumps were generated only for highly positive events, not for negative events.…”