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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chris B. Martin, Bryan Hong, Rachel N. Newsome, Katarina Savel, Melissa E. Meade, Andrew Xia, Christopher J. Honey, Morgan D. Barense
Summary: The act of remembering everyday experiences affects our perception of the world, future thinking, and self-perception. However, the ability to recall specific details and relive the past tends to decline with age. To address this, a smartphone application called HippoCamera was developed to help older adults enhance their episodic memory. By repeatedly reactivating memories of real-world events, participants experienced improved recollection and more positive emotions. These benefits were observed shortly after the intervention and even after a 3-month delay.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Emily C. Gibson, Lucy Ford, Gail A. Robinson
Summary: Highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) is characterized by the ability to recall personal experiences with high detail and accuracy. This study investigated autobiographical memory and future thinking in a case of HSAM, finding that while recall of past events was stronger, there was no significant advantage in constructing future-oriented narrative scenes.
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Neurosciences
Laurie Compere, Sylvain Charron, Thierry Gallarda, Eirini Rari, Stephanie Lion, Marion Nys, Adele Anssens, Sandrine Coussinoux, Sebastien Machefaux, Catherine Oppenheim, Pascale Piolino
Summary: Recent literature on sex-related differences in autobiographical memory emphasizes the importance of psychosocial factors like gender identity over biological sex. This fMRI study found gender identity to have a stronger impact on autobiographical memory than biological sex, highlighting the need to consider hormonal factors in future research. The results suggest an interaction between biological sex and gender identity in explaining variations in autobiographical memory.
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Behavioral Sciences
Daniela J. Palombo, Dominoe Jones, Caroline Strang, Mieke Verfaellie
Summary: The hippocampus is crucial for episodic memory and imagination. A study examined whether amnesia is more severe when the memory content requires scene construction. The results showed that amnesic patients were equally impaired in recalling words with high and low scene imagery, suggesting that the role of the hippocampus extends to content that doesn't demand scene construction.
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Zhiyue Zhao, Da Shi, Zixuan Huang, Xiyun Liu
Summary: This research proposes a theoretical framework that combines the notion of mental time travel with the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis to examine the effects of positive and negative tourism memories on revisit intention through episodic future thinking. The findings reveal that positive tourism memories strengthen tourists' revisit intentions, and episodic future thinking partially mediates the association between tourism memory valence and revisit intention. Positive external information can further enhance the effect of episodic future thinking on this intention.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Adrian W. Gilmore, Anna M. Agron, Estefania Gonzalez-Araya, Stephen J. Gotts, Alex Martin
Summary: In recent years, there has been an increasing use of multi-echo fMRI designs in cognitive neuroscience. Acquiring multiple echoes provides various benefits such as increased contrast-to-noise ratio, reduced signal dropout and thermal noise, as well as the identification of nuisance signal components in BOLD data. However, the use of multi-echo acquisitions also comes with increased data processing complexity and potential trade-offs in temporal and spatial resolution. This study reexamines a multi-echo dataset and demonstrates the practical benefits of multi-echo denoising in a naturalistic memory paradigm, specifically in understanding hippocampal activity during autobiographical recall.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adrian W. Gilmore, Alina Quach, Sarah E. Kalinowski, Estefania Gonzalez-Araya, Stephen J. Gotts, Daniel L. Schacter, Alex Martin
Summary: The study demonstrates that the activity patterns of the hippocampus in recalling recent events differ from remote events, supporting predictions of the standard model of consolidation. By utilizing overt spoken recall, researchers found that the posterior hippocampal regions exhibit more active patterns during the recall of recent events.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Paul F. Hill, Sarah E. Seger, Hye Bin Yoo, Danielle R. King, Bradley C. Lega, Michael D. Rugg, David X. Wang
Summary: The study found that the neurophysiological correlates of the BOLD signal differ between different brain regions, with a negative correlation between BOLD signal and high gamma SMEs in the hippocampus, and a positive correlation in the neocortex.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Cherie Strikwerda-Brown, Siobhan R. Shaw, John R. Hodges, Olivier Piguet, Muireann Irish
Summary: The study used the NExt scoring protocol to investigate profiles of external details generated by patients with Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia in a future thinking task. The results indicated that AD patients provided more specific episode external details while SD patients displayed various types of external details during future simulation. The increased external details were related to grey matter intensity in different brain regions for each group.
MEMORY & COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Annick F. N. Tanguay, Olivia Gardam, Jane Archibald, Gladys Ayson, Cristina M. Atance
Summary: Episodic future thinking (EFT) is the ability to subjectively pre-experience a specific future event. Research shows that future-oriented cognition in young children positively predicts physical health and financial status later in life. This study explores the use of episodic specificity induction (ESI) to enhance EFT in children and found that it improved their performance on future thinking tasks.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Neal W. Morton, Ellen L. Zippi, Alison R. Preston
Summary: In this study, fMRI was used to track the reactivation and suppression of individual related memories during encoding of overlapping events. The results showed that reactivation of semantic knowledge related to a prior event in the posterior medial prefrontal cortex (pmPFC) supported memory integration, while the anterior hippocampus (aHPC) formed integrated representations combining the semantic features of overlapping events. Additionally, interactions between ventrolateral PFC and anterior mPFC were found to modulate aHPC integration on a trial-by-trial basis, with suppression of item-specific memory representations in anterior mPFC inhibiting hippocampal integration.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yiqun Guo, Huimin Wu, Zhangyong Li, Le Zhao, Tingyong Feng
Summary: A growing body of evidence suggests that engagement in episodic future thinking could reduce delay discounting rates. The present study found that individual differences in the ability of episodic future thinking were associated with differences in delay discounting in healthy college students. The neural basis underlying this association may involve the gray matter volume of the hippocampus and rostral anterior cingulate cortex.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Worawach Tungjitcharoen, Dorthe Berntsen
Summary: This study compared personal afterlife projections with autobiographical memories and future projections in samples from Thailand and America. The findings showed that afterlife events were rated lower in terms of characteristics compared to memories and future events. Participants who believed in the afterlife generally rated afterlife events higher than non-believers and those who were uncertain, and afterlife events were influenced by religious beliefs.
MEMORY & COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Matthew J. King, Kesia Courtenay, Bruce K. Christensen, Aaron S. Benjamin, Todd A. Girard
Summary: Depression is associated with lower specificity in autobiographical memories, which may not only be due to difficulties in focusing on event details, but also to broader memory deficits and weakened memory traces with the passage of time. These findings have important implications for memory interventions and treatments in depression.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Anni Richter, Joram Soch, Jasmin M. Kizilirmak, Larissa Fischer, Hartmut Schutze, Anne Assmann, Gusalija Behnisch, Hannah Feldhoff, Lea Knopf, Matthias Raschick, Annika Schult, Constanze I. Seidenbecher, Renat Yakupov, Emrah Duezel, Bjorn H. Schott
Summary: In this study, we investigated the associations between two single-value scores and brain function and cognitive changes in middle-aged and older adults. The results showed that these scores were related to memory recall performance and one of the scores also correlated with brain gray matter and other neuropsychological measures. This suggests that single-value scores of memory-related fMRI provide valuable information about network dysfunction in individuals and age-related cognitive decline.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Sebastian Guderian, Anna M. Dzieciol, David G. Gadian, Sebastian Jentschke, Christian F. Doeller, Neil Burgess, Mortimer Mishkin, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2015)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eva Zita Patai, David G. Gadian, Janine M. Cooper, Anna M. Dzieciol, Mortimer Mishkin, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2015)
Article
Neurosciences
Barbara A. Wilson, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Gerhard Florschutz
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Sharon Geva, Janine M. Cooper, David G. Gadian, Mortimer Mishkin, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2016)
Article
Neurosciences
Monica Munoz-Lopez, Aparna Hoskote, Martin J. Chadwick, Anna M. Dzieciol, David G. Gadian, Kling Chong, Tina Banks, Michelle de Haan, Torsten Baldeweg, Mortimer Mishkin, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Article
Clinical Neurology
Sarah R. Rudebeck, Sara Shavel-Jessop, Sophia Varadkar, Tamsin Owen, J. Helen Cross, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Torsten Baldeweg
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Katrin Schulze, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Mortimer Mishkin
Review
Neurosciences
Rachael L. Elward, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2018)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Caroline Skirrow, J. Helen Cross, Sue Harrison, Francesca Cormack, William Harkness, Rosie Coleman, Ellen Meierotto, Johanna Gaiottino, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Torsten Baldeweg
Editorial Material
Behavioral Sciences
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Francesca Cacucci
Summary: The study found a direct relationship between brain functional connectivity and mind wandering, especially with connections involving the DMN being more predictive of MW. Results showed varying strengths of FC-DMN in different groups of MW stability, indicating a potential correlation between MW and connections within the DMN and FPCN.
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Clinical Neurology
Niall J. Bourke, Celia Demarchi, Sara De Simoni, Ravjeet Samra, Maneesh C. Patel, Adam Kuczynski, Quen Mok, Neil Wimalasundera, Fareneh Vargha-Khadem, David J. Sharp
Summary: Long-term outcomes of paediatric traumatic brain injury are difficult to predict. Traumatic brain injury can lead to reductions in brain volume and is associated with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impairments. This study investigates the impact of brain injury on healthy brain development and shows that volumetric abnormalities are common after moderate/severe traumatic brain injury in both grey and white matter regions.
Article
Neurosciences
Rachael Elward, Jennifer Limond, Loic J. Chareyron, Janice Ethapemi, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Summary: This study investigates how patients with developmental amnesia (DA) utilize recognition to support semantic learning. The results show that recognition-learning is beneficial for cued recall in patients with DA. This finding has implications for the support of school-aged children with episodic memory difficulties.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Sian E. Handley, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Richard J. Bowman, Alki Liasis
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Anna M. Dzieciol, Jocelyne Bachevalier, Kadharbatcha S. Saleem, David G. Gadian, Richard Saunders, W. K. Kling Chong, Tina Banks, Mortimer Mishkin, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Article
Neurosciences
Kiran K. Seunarine, Jonathan D. Clayden, Sebastian Jentschke, Monica Munoz, Janine M. Cooper, Martin J. Chadwick, Tina Banks, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Christopher A. Clark
BRAIN CONNECTIVITY
(2016)