Impairments of Working Memory for Object-Location Associations in Depression

Abstract:

In this paper, we investigated the working memory for object-location associations of 11 depressions when they induced by different emotional pictures (positive, neutral and negative), and compared with a control group of 14 normal subjects. The results showed that there was no significant difference in the correct rate of associative memory between depression and control group (P > 0.05), however, there was significant difference in the memory retrieval time (P < 0.05), which suggest that the memory retrieval needs more time resources. These results indicate that depression has a normal memory encoding network, but an abnormal memory retrieval network for object-location associations.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 590)
• Pages: 828-832
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.590.828
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Peng Fei Liu, Mi Li, Sheng Fu Lu*, Jing Wang, Yu Zhou, Xing Yu Su, Ning Zhong
• Keywords: Depression, Object-Location Associations, Working Memory

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