The influence of emotional narrative content on the self-reference effect in memory.

Nishaat Mukadam, Wanbing Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Andrew E Budson, Angela Gutchess

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Article in Aging brain, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Use of podcasts for health education: a scoping review.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024
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Nishaat MukadamBrandeis University, Department of Psychology, Waltham, MA, United States.

Wanbing ZhangBrandeis University, Department of Psychology, Waltham, MA, United States.

Xiaodong LiuBrandeis University, Department of Psychology, Waltham, MA, United States.

Andrew E BudsonVA Boston Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States.

Angela GutchessBrandeis University, Department of Psychology, Waltham, MA, United States.

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Neuropathology CoreP30AG013846 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI KOWALL, NEIL W. · 1996 to 2020

$29.1M

CSRD VA I01 CX001698NIA NIH HHS P30 AG013846

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Abstract

This study investigated how emotional language usage impacts self-referential effects in memory in healthy older adults and individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). To heighten self-focus, 37 healthy older adults and 22 aMCI participants narrated autobiographical memories and then encoded words using a self-referencing or a semantic strategy. We were interested in how narrating autobiographical memories impacted subsequent memory. We probed narrative language usage with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count text analysis program, testing the degree to which language from the narrated autobiographical memories contain emotional (positive and negative) words that predicted the self-reference effect across groups. Results indicated that higher levels of positive emotional language were related to larger self-reference effects in memory. In conclusion, narrating autobiographical memories using emotional language influenced the effectiveness of self-referencing as a memory strategy for both healthy older adults and aMCI participants.

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Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI)Autobiographical memoryEmotionEpisodic memoryHealthy agingLanguageSelf

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PMID36911516

DOI10.1016/j.nbas.2021.100015

PMCPMC9997179

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