Mental Recall

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The contribution of autobiographical significance to semantic memory.

We examined the importance of autobiographical significance (AS) in the representation and organization of semantic memory by examining which famous people are most likely to be associated with specific personal memories and whether or not this AS can be ...
Robyn Westmacott, Morris Moscovitch (Mem Cognit, 200307)
contribution-autobiographical-significance-semantic-memory.asp

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How accurate are patients in reporting their antidepressant treatment history?

BACKGROUND: A patients report of their antidepressant treatment history is one of the most important pieces of information used in selecting an antidepressant regimen. It is currently unknown how accurate patients are in describing and characterizing ...
Michael A Posternak, Mark Zimmerman (J Affect Disord, 200307)
accurate-patients-reporting-antidepressant-treatment-history.asp

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Cognitive support at encoding attenuates age differences in recollective experience among adults of lower frontal lobe function.

Free recall and recollective experience were investigated in relation to low and high cognitive support at encoding and to neuropsychological measures of frontal lobe function (FLF) in 105 healthy adults divided into 3 age groups (young, young-old, old). ...
David Bunce (Neuropsychology, 200307)
cognitive-support-encoding-attenuates-age-differences-recollective.asp

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Reduced hippocampal activation during encoding and recognition of words in schizophrenia patients.

OBJECTIVE: In patients with schizophrenia, impaired hippocampal activation either during encoding or recognition tasks has been observed in a few functional imaging experiments. In this fMRI study, the authors report results of word encoding and ...
Frank Jessen, Lukas Scheef, Lars Germeshausen, Youlha Tawo, Martin Kockler, Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Wolfgang Maier, Hans H Schild, Reinhard Heun (Am J Psychiatry, 200307)
reduced-hippocampal-activation-encoding-recognition-words.asp

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Physicians enquiries into their patients alcohol use: public views and recalled experiences.

AIMS: To examine public opinion and experiences of family physician involvement in alcohol use issues and to identify patient characteristics associated with these opinions and experiences. DESIGN: A secondary analysis of population survey data from the ...
Brian R Rush, Karen A Urbanoski, Barbara A Allen (Addiction, 200307)
physicians-enquiries-patients-alcohol-public-views-recalled.asp

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Context effects in word recognition: evidence for early interactive processing.

This study investigated whether a prior context influenced lexical access as indexed by participants electrophysiological response in the N1 from 132 to 192 ms poststimulus. Ambiguous, high-frequency (HF), and low-frequency (LF) words were presented in ...
Sara C Sereno, Cameron C Brewer, Patrick J ODonnell (Psychol Sci, 200307)
context-effects-word-recognition-evidence-early-interactive-processing.asp

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Aging affects the engagement of the hippocampus during autobiographical memory retrieval.

Surprisingly little is known about the neural correlates of remembering real life events in the context of normal aging. We therefore asked young and older adults to retrieve real life autobiographical event memories accrued over decades, while their ...
Eleanor A Maguire, Christopher D Frith (Brain, 200307)
aging-affects-engagement-hippocampus-autobiographical-memory-retrieval.asp

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Sit-and-wait strategies in dynamic visual search.

The role of memory in visual search has lately become a controversial issue. Horowitz and Wolfe (1998) observed that performance in a visual search task was little affected by whether the stimuli were static or randomly relocated every 111 ms. Because a ...
Adrian von Mühlenen, Hermann J Müller, Dagmar Müller (Psychol Sci, 200307)
sit-wait-strategies-dynamic-visual-search.asp

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The Nine Box Maze Test: A measure of spatial memory development in children.

This study investigates the development of visuo-spatial memory in school-aged children, as measured by the Nine Box Maze Test Child Version (NBMT-CV). This task, originally developed for adults by, utilises an allocentric framework to assess the ...
Linda M Pentland, Vicki A Anderson, Sherelle Dye, Stephen J Wood (Brain Cogn, 200307)
nine-box-maze-test-measure-spatial-memory-development-children.asp

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Cognitive consequences of early phase of literacy.

The effect of the degree of illiteracy (complete or incomplete) on phonological skills, verbal and visual memory and visuospatial skills is examined in 97 normal Brazilian adults who considered themselves illiterate, and 41 Brazilian school children aged ...
Georges Dellatolas, Lucia Willadino Braga, Ligia do Nascimento Souza, Gilberto Nunes Filho, Elizabeth Queiroz, Gerard Deloche (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
cognitive-consequences-early-phase-literacy.asp