Direct Retrieval Bias for Categoric and Specific Memories for Negatively-Valenced Cues in Major Depression

Abstract excerpt

<p>Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is associated with reduced specificity in autobiographical memory. It has been argued that this tendency occurs through a failure of effortful generative retrieval, regardless of valence of cue word. However, we propose that in MDD general memories are likely to be recalled via direct retrieval, and direct retrieval is more likely for negatively-valenced cues. To provide a prelim...

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• Child
• Depression
• Life Change Events
• Longitudinal Studies
• Memory, Episodic
• Mental Recall
• Sex Factors
• Stress, Psychological

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Literature Corpus work

60107bc6-ffe7-517b-bef7-278340c6cad0

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/s2485