Raes Filip, Hermans Dirk, Williams J Mark G, Demyttenaere Koen, Sabbe Bernard, Pieters Guido, Eelen Paul
University of Leuven, Belgium.
Memory. 2006 Jul;14(5):584-94. doi: 10.1080/09658210600624614.
The present study explored the relation between overgeneral autobiographical memory (AM) and other aspects of memory functioning in depression. A total of 26 patients with major depressive disorder completed a set of memory tasks measuring AM specificity (AMT; Williams & Broadbent, 1986), working memory, semantic memory, verbal learning, delayed verbal recall, recognition memory, and source memory. Reduced specificity of AM was related to poor working memory (central executive functioning) and poor source memory. The former finding conforms to the idea that the voluntary retrieval of specific autobiographical memories (AMs) involves central executive processes (e.g., Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000). The latter finding replicates and extends recent findings suggesting that overgeneral AM is part of a broader memory deficit in retrieving the specific details of the context in which information was acquired (Ramponi, Barnard, & Nimmo-Smith, 2004). Furthermore, in line with Ramponi et al. (2004), rumination was found to be related to both overgeneral AM and poor source memory.
本研究探讨了过度概括性自传体记忆（AM）与抑郁症患者记忆功能其他方面之间的关系。共有26名重度抑郁症患者完成了一系列记忆任务，这些任务测量了AM特异性（AMT；Williams和Broadbent，1986）、工作记忆、语义记忆、言语学习、延迟言语回忆、识别记忆和来源记忆。AM特异性降低与工作记忆（中央执行功能）差和来源记忆差有关。前一个发现符合这样一种观点，即特定自传体记忆（AMs）的自主提取涉及中央执行过程（例如，Conway和Pleydell-Pearce，2000）。后一个发现重复并扩展了最近的研究结果，表明过度概括性AM是在提取信息获取背景的具体细节方面更广泛记忆缺陷的一部分（Ramponi、Barnard和Nimmo-Smith，2004）。此外，与Ramponi等人（2004）的研究一致，沉思被发现与过度概括性AM和来源记忆差都有关。
