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Pinto R, Albuquerque PB. The influence of information generation on destination memory. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2024; 77:1650-1661. [PMID: 37740695 PMCID: PMC11295416 DOI: 10.1177/17470218231205373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/25/2023]
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To remember to whom we transmit information, we rely on destination memory, with worse performance occurring when participants share personal facts (e.g., my age is . . .) compared with interesting ones (e.g., a shrimp's heart is in its head). When reporting personal information, the internal attentional focus decreases the attentional resources available to associate that information with recipients, resulting in worse destination memory. Given that the poorer destination memory when participants transmitted personal facts was always compared with the transmission of interesting facts, in Experiment 1 (between-participants design: 41 participants) and Experiment 2 (within-participants design: 30 participants), we compared the generation and transmission of personal facts with the transmission of familiar proverbs. Again, the generation and transmission of personal facts hampered destination memory. Besides the type of information (personal vs. familiar proverbs), the conditions differed regarding the type of process (generation vs. transmission of information). To clarify the influence of generation on destination memory, in Experiment 3 (N = 31), participants (1) transmitted and (2) generated and transmitted familiar proverbs, and significant differences in destination memory between the conditions was not observed. In general, our experiments seem to support the assumption that transmitting personal information leads to worse destination memory not because participants generated the information but because personal facts drive the attentional focus to the self.
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- Raquel Pinto
- School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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Tsuboi N, Francis WS. Who said what to whom? Memory for sources and destinations in monolinguals and bilinguals. Mem Cognit 2024:10.3758/s13421-024-01589-6. [PMID: 38914902 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-024-01589-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
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Two experiments with monolingual and bilingual participants tested memory for sources (speakers) and destinations (listeners) in conversations consisting of self-referential statements. In Experiment 1, participants directly interacted in English conversations with audio-visually recorded confederates. In Experiment 2, participants observed recorded conversations among confederates. In both conversational situations, source memory was more accurate than destination memory, indicating that the attentional resources consumed by self-focus or sentence production/completion do not explain why destinations are less well remembered than sources in direct-interaction conversations. Source and destination memory were positively associated with item memory at the participant level, indicating that stronger item encoding is associated with stronger encoding of contextual information. In the observed conversations, source and destination accuracy were negatively associated at the trial level, indicating that these features of the memory episode are not encoded independently, and there is a tradeoff in the encoding of these contextual features. Item memory did not differ for monolinguals and bilinguals and was positively associated with proficiency only in conversations with direct interaction. In the observational setting (but not the direct-interaction setting), source and destination memory were more accurate for bilinguals than monolinguals. This finding suggests that bilinguals allocate attention more efficiently than monolinguals when the cognitive demands of sentence production are eliminated. Proficiency in English was positively associated with memory for the appropriate conversational partner only when participants had to produce sentence frames and complete them with self-generated information, suggesting that language proficiency is beneficial when cognitive demands are high.
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- Naoko Tsuboi
- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, 79968, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, 79968, USA.
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El Haj M. Destination memory disorders: At the junction between memory and socioaffective processing. Soc Neurosci 2024; 19:49-56. [PMID: 38706268 DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2351213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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The junction between memory dysfunction and socioaffective dysfunction is a complex area as research has typically been interested in one dysfunction rather than in the other. However, this junction can be studied under the lens of destination memory. Destination memory (i.e. the ability to remember to whom a piece of information was previously transmitted) is unique in that it draws on both memory and socioaffective processes. Research has demonstrated how destination memory is prone to distortions in neurological/psychiatric disorders. This paper aims to provide a focused review on the interplay between memory and socioaffective processes in the deterioration of destination memory within these disorders. It shows how both episodic memory and socioaffective dysfunction can jointly contribute to the decline in destination memory, although the contribution of each of the two factors may vary depending on the disorder.
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- Mohamad El Haj
- Clinical Gerontology Department, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France
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Lima D, Albuquerque PB, Beato MS. "Choose it, and remember it": The impact of choice on destination memory. Scand J Psychol 2023; 64:719-727. [PMID: 37199491 DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Destination memory can be defined as the capacity to remember to whom we transmit information. It is measured through the accuracy of retrieving the association between the information we transmit and the person to whom we transmit it. A destination memory procedure aims to emulate human interaction by sharing facts with celebrities (i.e., familiar faces) since we often communicate with people we know. However, the role of the choice about who we intend to transmit the information to has not been evaluated before. This paper investigated whether deciding with whom to share a piece of information benefits destination memory. We designed two experiments with different levels of cognitive load, increasing it from Experiment 1 to Experiment 2. The experiments included two conditions: the choice condition, in which participants chose from two options to whom they desired to share a fact, and the no-choice condition, in which participants simply shared facts with celebrities without the possibility of a choice. Experiment 1 suggested that a choice component did not affect destination memory. However, when in Experiment 2 we raised the cognitive load by increasing the number of stimuli, we found that selecting the recipient during the more challenging task provided an advantage in destination memory. This result is congruent with the explanation that the shift of the participants' attentional resources to the recipient, caused by the choice component, leads to a destination memory improvement. In sum, it seems that a choice component can improve destination memory only under demanding attentional conditions.
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- Diogo Lima
- School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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El Haj M, Allain P, de Bont L, Ndobo A. High Destination Memory for Emotionally Incongruent Information. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.4.0405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This article investigates the effect of emotion on destination memory. Participants were asked to tell neutral, positive, and negative information to neutral, positive, and negative faces. Afterward, participants were asked to remember to whom each piece of information was previously told. Results demonstrated high destination memory when the positive face was associated with negative information than with positive information. Results also demonstrated high destination memory when the negative face was associated with positive information than with negative information. These findings are attributed to the emotional incongruence between information and its destination. When positive or negative information is presented, one may expect that the listener would experience the same emotional state. Violation of this expectation seems to result in a high retention of the context in which the violation has occurred and consequently in a high destination memory.
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- Mohamad El Haj
- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Nantes Université
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Nantes Université
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- Centre de Recherche sur les Identités, les Nations et l’Interculturalité, Université de Nantes
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Nantes Université
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Li M, Nie A. Is there a self-positivity bias for destination memory? Behavioral and ERP evidence. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2021; 219:103396. [PMID: 34403980 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Despite extensive existing research concerning source memory (i.e., memory for what has been said, given, or done to us by whom) during social interaction, destination memory (i.e., memory for what we have said, given, or done to whom) remains to be explored. Furthermore, although destination memory is believed to involve a self-reference process, it remains unclear whether such a process is sufficient to trigger a self-positivity bias. To address these issues, we combined the destination memory paradigm with the social dilemma game to compare destination memory for cooperation and cheating. Both behavioral performance and the neural index of successful encoding, the Dm (difference due to memory) effect, were concerned. Behaviorally, destination memory for cooperative, cheating, and neutral behaviors decreased successively. For neural activities, the pre-400 ms Dm effects during 200-400 ms were non-significant under any condition. In the latency windows of 400-800 ms and 800-1000 ms, the post-400 ms Dm effects were reliably observed for both cooperative and cheating behaviors and were statistically comparable between the two behavior types, but the effect was not obtained for neutral behaviors. These data suggest a self-positivity bias in the behavioral performance but not in the encoding-related Dm effects of destination memory.
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- Mengsi Li
- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
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Barros C, Albuquerque PB, Pinto R, El Haj M. The effect of distinctive facial features on destination memory. Scand J Psychol 2021; 62:502-509. [PMID: 33973256 DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Revised: 02/06/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Destination memory involves remembering to whom we told information. Low accuracy of this memory is linked to higher self-focus and lower attentional resources allocated to the recipient of the information. The present paper aimed to investigate whether the existence of distinctive features (e.g., tattoos) of destination face would improve destination memory, in a within- (Experiment 1 and 2) and between-participants (Experiment 3) design. In a destination memory task, participants had to tell proverbs to faces that presented a distinctive feature and to other faces that did not. Results showed that a destination memory advantage only occurs when faces with different distinctive features are compared to faces without distinctive features (Experiment 1). These results are in accordance with the existing theoretical framework on destination memory and distinctiveness; highlighting the importance of personal attributes, namely, the distinctiveness of the destination face and the relativity of distinctiveness in destination memory.
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- School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Université Nantes, Laboratoire de psychologie des Pays de la Loire, LPPL, Nantes, France.,Unité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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El Haj M, Allain P, De Bont L, Ndobo A. Personality and social memory: High source and destination memory in extroverts. Scand J Psychol 2021; 62:436-442. [PMID: 33660873 DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We evaluated relationship between personality and memory for social interactions. More specifically, we investigated the relationship between extraversion and the ability to remember who told us some information (i.e., source memory) and the ability to remember to whom we told that information (i.e., destination memory). On a source memory task, participants received information from pictures of celebrities; a subsequent recognition test required them to identify the celebrities from whom they had received that information. On a destination memory task, participants were invited to tell information to celebrities; a later recognition task instructed them to identify the celebrity to whom they had previously told that information. Besides the assessment of source and destination memory, participants answered a questionnaire regarding extraversion. Results demonstrated significant positive correlation between extraversion and source memory, as well as significant positive correlation between extraversion and destination memory. In other words, the more participants described themselves as extraverts, the higher their source and destination memory. During social communications (e.g., in a conversation), extraverts may demonstrate high source and destination memory as these individuals typically value social communication, public sharing, and processing of social information.
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- Mohamad El Haj
- Nantes Université, Universitaire d'Angers, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France.,Unité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, LPPL EA 4638, SFR Confluences, UNIV Angers, Nantes Université, Angers, France.,Département de Neurologie, CHU Angers, Angers, France
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- Centre de Recherche sur les Identités, les Nations et l'Interculturalité, CRINI EA1162, Université de Nantes, Chemin la Censive du Tertre BP 81227, Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, Universitaire d'Angers, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
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Earhart B, Lakhani N, Roberts KP. Developmental trends in children's source and destination memory. J Exp Child Psychol 2020; 202:104995. [PMID: 33096368 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Destination memory (the ability to remember who one has told information to) has been studied in adult samples, but not with child participants. The goals of the current research were to describe the development of children's destination memory abilities across early to middle childhood and to compare destination memory with source-monitoring abilities within the same age range. In two studies, children aged 5-10 years had conversations with two puppets and were later asked to recall which puppet they had disclosed specific information to. Study 1 (N = 86) revealed age to be a significant predictor of destination memory accuracy. Study 2 (N = 90) demonstrated that source memory and destination memory were related and shared a similar developmental trajectory but that source accuracy was higher on average than destination accuracy. This research contributes to our theoretical understanding of children's memory development, and directions for future research are highlighted in the Discussion. Implications for investigative interviews in which children are asked about prior disclosures are discussed.
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- Becky Earhart
- Centre for Investigative Interviewing, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane (Mount Gravatt), Queensland 4122, Australia.
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada
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Rommers J, Dell GS, Benjamin AS. Word predictability blurs the lines between production and comprehension: Evidence from the production effect in memory. Cognition 2020; 198:104206. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Revised: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Wagnon CC, Wehrmann K, Klöppel S, Peter J. Incidental Learning: A Systematic Review of Its Effect on Episodic Memory Performance in Older Age. Front Aging Neurosci 2019; 11:173. [PMID: 31379557 PMCID: PMC6650531 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Episodic memory is the capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information of specific past events. Several studies have shown that the decline in episodic memory accompanies aging, but most of these studies assessed memory performance through intentional learning. In this approach, the individuals deliberately acquire knowledge. Yet, another method to evaluate episodic memory performance-receiving less attention by the research community-is incidental learning. Here, participants do not explicitly intent to learn. Incidental learning becomes increasingly important over the lifespan, since people spend less time in institutions where intentional learning is required (e.g., school, university, or at work). Yet, we know little how incidental learning impacts episodic memory performance in advanced age. Likewise, the neural mechanisms underlying incidental learning in older age remain largely unknown. Thus, the immediate goal of this review was to summarize the existing literature on how incidental learning changes with age and how neural mechanisms map onto these age-related changes. We considered behavioral as well as neuroimaging studies using incidental learning paradigms (alone or in combination with intentional learning) to assess episodic memory performance in elderly adults. We conducted a systematic literature search on the Medline/PubMed, Cochrane, and OVID SP databases and searched the reference lists of articles. The search yielded 245 studies, of which 34 concerned incidental learning and episodic memory in older adults. In sum, these studies suggest that aging particularly affects episodic memory after incidental learning for cognitively demanding tasks. Monitoring deficits in older adults might account for these findings since cognitively demanding tasks need increased attentional resources. On a neuronal level, dysregulation of the default-mode-network mirrors monitoring deficits, with an attempt to compensate through increased frontal activity. Future (neuroimaging) studies should systematically evaluate retrieval tasks with diverging cognitive load and consider the influence of attention and executive functions in more detail.
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- University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Background/Study Context: A substantial body of literature suggests that stereotypes can play a determining role in making judgments about the source of information. This study investigated this issue for destination memory or remembering to whom information has been previously told. METHODS Younger adults and older adults told six medical and six mechanical facts to a picture depicting a physician, and also told six different medical and six different mechanical facts to a picture depicting a mechanic. On a subsequent recognition task, participants had to decide to whom each fact had been previously told. RESULTS Analysis showed better destination memory for destination-consistent facts than for inconsistent facts, a stereotypical tendency that was more apparent in older adults than in younger adults. Difficulties in attributing facts to their fact-inconsistent destination were reliably correlated with executive functions in younger adults and older adults. CONCLUSION Executive functions are likely to be required to monitor discrepancies between facts and their inconsistent destination, whereas no such monitoring is required when statements are consistent with their destination.
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- Mohamad El Haj
- a SCALab-Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives , Université Lille , Lille , France.,b CHU de Lille, Unité de Psychogériatrie, Pôle de gérontologie , Lille , France
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Johnson TL, Jefferson SC. Destination memory accuracy and confidence in younger and older adults. Exp Aging Res 2017; 44:62-81. [DOI: 10.1080/0361073x.2017.1398515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Tara L. Johnson
- Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
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El Haj M, Miller R. Destination memory: the relationship between memory and social cognition. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2017; 82:1027-1038. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-017-0891-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 07/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Mugikura S, Abe N, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Takahashi S, Fujii T. Medial temporal lobe activity associated with the successful retrieval of destination memory. Exp Brain Res 2015; 234:95-104. [PMID: 26378005 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4415-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Destination memory is the process of remembering to whom we tell particular things. Although recent behavioral studies have clarified the cognitive nature of destination memory, the neural mechanisms underlying destination memory retrieval remain unclear. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine whether the medial temporal lobe (MTL), a structure that has been implicated in recollection-based memory, is activated during the successful retrieval of destination information. During a study phase before fMRI scanning, the subjects told a series of facts to either a woman or a man. During fMRI scanning, the subjects were asked to judge whether each fact presented was old or new, and if they judged it as old, to indicate, including a confidence rating (high or low), whether the subjects had told that fact to either a man or a woman. We found that successful destination retrieval, when compared to failed destination retrieval, was associated with increased activity in the parahippocampal gyrus. We also found that the confidence level (high vs. low) for destination memory retrieval was associated with increased activity in another (posterior) region of the parahippocampal gyrus. The present study suggests that the successful retrieval of destination information depends highly on MTL-mediated recollection processes.
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- Shunji Mugikura
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.,Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan.,Division of Systems Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Kansei Fukushi Research Institute, Tohoku Fukushi University, 6-149-1, Kunimigaoka, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 989-3201, Japan.
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