Phenomenal Characteristics of Autobiographical Memories for Emotional and Neutral Events in Older and Younger Adults

Comblain, Christine; D’Argembeau, Arnaud; Linden, Martial Van der

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“…Older adults have been found to demonstrate a bias toward positive emotional stimuli and decreased processing of negative emotional stimuli, a finding that has been called "the positivity effect" (Mather and Carstensen, 2005). This positivity effect also appears to influence the retention of information, with older adults remembering more positive and less negative information than young people Kennedy et al, 2004), and recalling autobiographical memories with more positivity (Comblain et al, 2005).…”

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confidence: 97%

Healthy aging is associated with increased neural processing of positive valence but attenuated processing of emotional arousal: an fMRI study

Kehoe

Toomey²,

Balsters

et al. 2013

Neurobiology of Aging

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Arousal and valence play key roles in emotional perception, with normal aging leading to changes in the neural substrates supporting valence processing. The objective of this study was to investigate normal age-related changes in the neural substrates of emotional arousal processing. Twenty-three young and 23 older, healthy women underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging as they viewed images which were neutral or positive in valence and which varied in arousal level from low to high. Using a parametric modulation approach, we examined how the blood oxygen-level dependent signal varied with single trial subjective ratings of valence and arousal, and whether this differed with age. In accordance with previous studies we found that the older group showed greater activation in response to positive valence, in the left amygdala, left middle temporal gyrus and right lingual gyrus. In contrast however, they showed reduced reactivity to emotional arousal, in occipital and temporal visual cortices bilaterally, the left inferior parietal cortex, and the supplementary motor area bilaterally. This study represents the first of its kind to clearly dissociate how aging affects the neural correlates of emotional arousal and valence. The changes in arousal processing may in part be mediated by the functional reorganization evident in the aging brain, such as reduced activation of the posterior cortices as described by the posterior-anterior shift in ageing (PASA) effect.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Healthy aging is associated with increased neural processing of positive valence but attenuated processing of emotional arousal: an fMRI study

Kehoe

Toomey²,

Balsters

et al. 2013

Neurobiology of Aging

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“…As subsequent research was expanding the list of differentiating attributes (see Table 1), the data was showing, simultaneously, that the presence of these distinctive features depends on the influence of a host of factors. Among other factors, the presence of characteristic features in true statements, as opposed to statements arising from imagined or suggested facts, would depend on the activation (Diges, Rubio, & Rodríguez, 1992), previous knowledge (Diges, 1995), the perceptive modality (Henkel et al, 2000), the preparation (Manzanero & Diges, 1995), the time delayed (Manzanero, 2006), the individual's age (Comblain, D'Argembeau, & Van der Linden, 2005), the asking of questions and multiple recall (Manzanero, 1994;Strömwall, Bengtsson, Leander, & Granhag, 2004), and contextual factors (Campos & Alonso-Quecuty, 1998), as well as the type of design used in the research conducted (Bensi, Gambetti, Nori, & Giusberti, 2009). …”

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Evaluating the Credibility of Statements Given by Persons With Intellectual Disability. [Evaluación de la credibilidad de relatos de personas con discapacidad intelectual]

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Título: Evaluación de la credibilidad de relatos de personas con discapacidad intelectual. Resumen: El objetivo del presente trabajo consistió en analizar las características diferenciales de los relatos emitidos por víctimas reales y simuladas con discapacidad intelectual ligera y moderada mediante el procedimiento de análisis de credibilidad de Control de la Realidad (RM). Dos evaluadores entrenados en los procedimientos de análisis de credibilidad mediante criterios de contenido evaluaron 13 relatos verdaderos y 16 relatos falsos. Los resultados encontrados muestran que existen pocas diferencias entre los dos tipos de relatos. Los únicos criterios que resultan significativos para discriminar entre los dos tipos de relatos son la cantidad de detalles y la longitud de las declaraciones espontáneas obtenidas mediante recuerdo libre. Ninguna de las características fenomenológicas examinadas resultó significativa para discriminar entre víctimas reales y simuladas. La representación gráfica mediante visualización hiperdimensional (HDV) considerando conjuntamente todos los criterios muestra una gran heterogeneidad entre relatos. Un análisis de conglomerados permitió clasificar los dos tipos de relatos con una probabilidad de acierto del 68.75 por ciento. Palabras clave: Evaluación de credibilidad; discapacidad intelectual; criterios de contenido; testimonio; visualización hiper-dimensional. Abstract:The objective of this study was to analyze the features that distinguish statements given by actual and simulated victims with mild to moderate intellectual disability, using the credibility analysis procedure known as Reality Monitoring (RM). Two evaluators trained in credibility analysis procedures using content criteria evaluated 13 true statements and 16 false statements. The results obtained show that there is little difference between the two types of statements when analyzed on the basis of content criteria using the RM procedure. The only criteria that proved to be significant for discriminating between the two types of statements were the amount of details and the length of spontaneous statements obtained through free recall. None of the phenomenological characteristics studied turned out to be significant for discriminating between actual and simulated victims. Graphic representation using high-dimensional visualization (HDV) with all criteria taken into consideration shows that the two types of statements are quite heterogeneous. Cluster analysis can group cases with a 68.75% chance of accuracy.

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“…The older students….The older students seem to make systematically more negative evaluations especially in the codes of unacceptable (x 2 =4.85, p<.05) and wrong attitude (x 2 =3.07, p<.05).This is not a case of ageing effect, since a) the age difference among groups is minimum and b) ageing is generally positivelycorrelated to memories recalled of positive valence, as shown by Comblain et al (2005). So, these differences could be attributed to the training experience.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…So, a possible explanation could be why negative incidents are more emotional intense and that is the reason why they are more easily recalled. In addition, our participants are very young in age (M= 20 years old) and according to research older adults rate the autobiographical events as containing more positive feelings and as being less complex than the younger ones (Comblain et al, 2005). Non pedagogical punishment includes a broad spectrum of behaviors pedagogically unacceptable high in occurrence.…”

Section: Teachers' Behaviors Codingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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International Journal of Education and Practice

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Highlights: Explores the main thematic areas of student teachers' early episodic memories from their past school years.  Student teachers' episodic memories are rich and vivid and offer a valuable material for exercising in imagination new practices and methods.  University training has an impact in the organization of student teachers' episodic memoriesKeywords: Episodic memories, Student teachers, Mixed-method approach, Teachers' memories, Teachers' education. Contribution/ OriginalityThis study contributes in the (scarce) existing research concerning the episodic memories of student-teachers, concerning their past experiences as students. Our research, as bringing autobiographical memories material, contributes to our better understanding of student teachers' attitudes, fosters ideas in shaping effective teachers' training curricula and enables intercultural comparisons.

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Phenomenal Characteristics of Autobiographical Memories for Emotional and Neutral Events in Older and Younger Adults

Cited by 185 publications

References 34 publications

Healthy aging is associated with increased neural processing of positive valence but attenuated processing of emotional arousal: an fMRI study

Healthy aging is associated with increased neural processing of positive valence but attenuated processing of emotional arousal: an fMRI study

Evaluating the Credibility of Statements Given by Persons With Intellectual Disability. [Evaluación de la credibilidad de relatos de personas con discapacidad intelectual]

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