Memory and menstrual cycle

Hartley, L. R.; Lyons, Don Chalmers; Dunne, Michael P.

doi:10.1080/00140138708969681

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“…Although it was expected that activation levels would change throughout the menstrual cycle, this fi nding has neither confi rmed expectations nor has it proven consistent with some previous studies (12,15,16) that had also included self-assessment measures of activation. Considering that subjective assessments can be governed by the interaction effects of circumstances and personality traits, future studies should give priority to objective activation level indicators (heart rate, blood pressure, electrodermal reactions) that also give insight into the activity of the autonomic system.…”

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“…For example, monitoring cardiovascular activity across the menstrual cycle has shown that the lowest heart rates were found during the follicular and ovulatory phase, and increased to the highest values in the premenstrual and menstrual phases of a cycle (13,14). Some studies have confirmed similar variations in the subjective assessments of activation during the menstrual cycle (15,16). High Activation partly refl ects anxiety and negative emotions that were found to be more expressed during the menstrual phase of a cycle (8,14,17,18).…”

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Changes in Basal Body Temperature and Simple Reaction Times during the Menstrual Cycle

Šimić

Ravlić

2013

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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Previous studies have shown cyclic changes in the activation levels and performance of different tasks throughout the menstrual cycle. The aim of this study was to examine if changes in the reaction time to both light and sound stimuli may be associated with basal body temperature changes and subjective assessments of General and High Activation during the different phases of a menstrual cycle characterized by high (preovulatory and midluteal phase) and low (menstrual and early follicular phase) levels of oestrogen and progesterone. The study included measurements of basal body temperature, simple reaction times to light and sound and self-assessment of General and High Activation during the menstrual, early follicular, late follicular and luteal phase. The sample consisted of 19 female subjects with regular menstrual cycles. The results obtained in this study indicate lower basal body temperature values during phases with low sex hormone levels, while the activation assessments suggest stable levels of both General and High Activation throughout the menstrual cycle. Similar patterns of change have been shown for reaction times in visual and auditory sensory modalities. Reaction times were shorter during phases characterized by high sex hormone levels, while phases with low hormone levels were associated with longer reaction times. From the modifi ed text on correlations in the data analysis section, it is evident that they were calculated from averaged data from all phases of the menstrual cycle. Therefore, they do not refl ect intraindividual but rather interindividual variations between the observed variables, and are not related to the hypotheses of this paper.

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Changes in Basal Body Temperature and Simple Reaction Times during the Menstrual Cycle

Šimić

Ravlić

2013

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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“…Control subjects tended to be positive over all phases. However, no reliable effects were found of menstrual cycle phase on memory (Hartley et al, 1987;Richardson, 1988); and mood states on the day events were recorded (ignoring group) and at memory testing had no apparent influence on memory. Thus, menstrual phase related mood changes alone do not have direct, or unmediated, effects on daily personal memories.…”

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“…It was assumed, based on anecdotal clinical reports, that for the PMS sample mood changes correlated with phases in the menstrual cycle might impact directly on memory performance (cf. Hartley, Lyons, and Dunne, 1987). Group differences were also expected to interact with the affective valence of reported events and with the kinds of modifications made in original diary accounts.…”

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Mood‐related self‐schemata and mood‐congruity effects in autobiographical memory: A study of women with premenstrual syndrome

Barclay

Petitto

Labrum

et al. 1991

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Everyday autobiographical memory and mood interactions were explored in a small clinical sample of women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and a matched control group. Subjects kept daily records of memorable events for two consecutive menstrual cycles. Two recognition memory tests were given after a one-cycle delay. Mood, or affect, was self-assessed retrospectively over a week, at the end of each day during data collection and at testing, and when events occurred. Women with PMS were more depressed and more negative (angry) than positive (experiencing bursts of energy) in their daily moods than controls. Memory accuracy was poorer overall for PMS than control subjects, although no direct effects of menstrual cycle phase on memory were found. Instead, mood affected memory indirectly through moodrelated self-schemata which subsequently mediated mood-congruity effects. Memory accuracy for events experienced in negative mood states and associated with negative affective reactions was higher for PMS subjects when tested in negative mood states than for controls. No group differences were found on events associated with positive affect or positive daily moods when mood state at the time of testing was also positive. Women with PMS processed information selectively from negative events and events experienced in negative moods compared to controls. Negative events and negative moods appeared to interfere with remembering for control subjects. Women in the control group appeared to be biased towards selectively remembering positive events and events experienced on days when their mood states were relatively positive. Autobiographical memories are reconstructions of self-referenced information (Barclay, 1986(Barclay, , 1988Brewer, 1986Brewer, , 1988. Understanding how everyday self-referenced information is accessed and reconstructed is a central problem for any theory of autobiographical memory. One solution to this problem is to determine the factors facilitating, inhibiting or attenuating reconstructive memory processes. Selfschemata, as generic attitudes and beliefs people hold about themselves as cognitive, emotional and social beings, represent one such set of factors (Markus, 1977). Selfschemata, acquired through varied mundane and, at times, unusual and transitional life experiences, are therefore hypothesized to influence the selection, processing, and remembering of self-referenced information (Barclay, 1988; Barclay and 0888-4080/9

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“…Moos (1968) also classified mental symptoms attributed to the menstrual cycle, and in a later work (Moos et al, 1977) reports on an attempt to develop an empirical typology of menstrual cycle symptoms. Hartley et al (1987) described a specific relationship between memory and the menstrual cycle, in which, during ovulation, linguistic inference was slower in complex sentences and scores for recalling thesaurus lists were lower; furthermore, during premenstruation, women showed decreased recollection of aurally presented thesaurus lists. Additionally, the subjects reported pain during premenstruation on the MDQ.…”

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Menstrual Cycle Effects on Performance of Mental Arithmetic Task.

Kasamatsu

Suzuki

Anse

et al. 2002

J. Physiol. Anthropol.

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The purpose of this research was to identify the relationship between task performance and menstrual cycle. The difference of performance on menstrual cycle phase was investigated. The task was the mental arithmetic task which involved the non-sequential and higher order cognitive processes. The duration of the experiment was twenty minutes. Two-way analysis of variance by repeated-measures design was used to examine the differences in task performance between phases and temporal variations. Results showed that there was a significant difference in correct input time during temporal variations though there was no significant difference between phases. Moreover, the relationships between phases and intra-individual variations in task performance were examined using coefficient of variance (CV). CVs were plotted in three dimensions to examine the relationships between intra-individual variations and phases. Based on CVs, the subjects who showed differences were classified into two groups: those with a small difference in three phases and those with a difference every phase. The phase which indicated large CV changed with individuals.

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Memory and menstrual cycle

Cited by 20 publications

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Changes in Basal Body Temperature and Simple Reaction Times during the Menstrual Cycle

Changes in Basal Body Temperature and Simple Reaction Times during the Menstrual Cycle

Mood‐related self‐schemata and mood‐congruity effects in autobiographical memory: A study of women with premenstrual syndrome

Menstrual Cycle Effects on Performance of Mental Arithmetic Task.

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