Mood-congruent memory in depression - the influence of personal relevance and emotional context
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Mood-congruent memory in depression - the influence of personal relevance and emotional context. / Wittekind, Charlotte; Terfehr, Kirsten; Otte, Christian; Jelinek, Lena; Hinkelmann, Kim Maren; Moritz, Steffen.
in: PSYCHIAT RES, Jahrgang 215, Nr. 3, 30.03.2014, S. 606-613.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Mood-congruent memory in depression - the influence of personal relevance and emotional context
AU - Wittekind, Charlotte
AU - Terfehr, Kirsten
AU - Otte, Christian
AU - Jelinek, Lena
AU - Hinkelmann, Kim Maren
AU - Moritz, Steffen
N1 - Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/3/30
Y1 - 2014/3/30
N2 - The investigation of veridical mood-congruent memory (MCM) in major depressive disorder (MDD) has been subject of many studies, whereas mood-congruent false memory has received comparatively little attention. The present study examined the influence of valence, personal relevance and the valence of the context of the learning material on true and false MCM in 20 inpatients with MDD and 20 healthy controls. Sixty positive, negative, neutral or personally relevant nouns were either combined with a positive, negative or neutral adjective. Word pairs were presented to participants in a learning trial. In a recognition task, participants had to identify the previously studied word pairs. A MCM effect could not be found for hits. However, in exploratory analyses, word pairs containing personally relevant nouns were more rated towards old by the patient relative to the control group. Furthermore, depressed patients tended to rate items more towards old than controls when the words were presented in a negative new context. Results are in line with previous findings in depression research emphasizing the role of mood-congruent false memories for mood disorders.
AB - The investigation of veridical mood-congruent memory (MCM) in major depressive disorder (MDD) has been subject of many studies, whereas mood-congruent false memory has received comparatively little attention. The present study examined the influence of valence, personal relevance and the valence of the context of the learning material on true and false MCM in 20 inpatients with MDD and 20 healthy controls. Sixty positive, negative, neutral or personally relevant nouns were either combined with a positive, negative or neutral adjective. Word pairs were presented to participants in a learning trial. In a recognition task, participants had to identify the previously studied word pairs. A MCM effect could not be found for hits. However, in exploratory analyses, word pairs containing personally relevant nouns were more rated towards old by the patient relative to the control group. Furthermore, depressed patients tended to rate items more towards old than controls when the words were presented in a negative new context. Results are in line with previous findings in depression research emphasizing the role of mood-congruent false memories for mood disorders.
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.11.027
DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.11.027
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 24445164
VL - 215
SP - 606
EP - 613
JO - PSYCHIAT RES
JF - PSYCHIAT RES
SN - 0165-1781
IS - 3
ER -