TY - JOUR
T1 - Source memory in the real world
T2 - A neuropsychological study of flashbulb memory
AU - Davidson, Patrick S.R.
AU - Cook, Shaun P.
AU - Glisky, Elizabeth L.
AU - Verfaellie, Mieke
AU - Rapcsak, Steven Z.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by fellowships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to P. D., a National Institute on Aging grant (AG 14792) to E. G., and a National Institute on Neurological Disease and Stroke grant (NS 26985) to the Memory Disorders Research Center at Boston University and the Boston VA Healthcare System. We thank Lee Ryan for access to healthy participants; Lis Nielsen, Jasmeet Pannu, Pamela Perschler, and Sheryl Reminger for help contacting participants; Mick Alexander, Kelly Sullivan Giovanello, and David Schnyer for providing lesion data on the patients from Boston; Michael Robinson and Andrea Soulé for assistance with data collection, entry, and analysis; and members of the Memory Interest Group at the University of Arizona for helpful comments on a preliminary report. Preliminary findings were presented at the 2003 International Neuropsychological Society meeting in Honolulu, HI.
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - A flashbulb memory (FM) is a vivid, enduring memory for how one learned about a surprising, shocking event. It thus involves memory for the source of event information, as opposed to memory for the event itself. Which brain regions are involved in FM, however, is uncertain. Although medial temporal lobe/diencephalic (MTL/D) damage impairs content or item memory, frontal lobe (FL) damage has been associated with impaired source memory. One would therefore expect that FM should depend on the FLs, although two recent reports do not support this idea. In the current study, we examined memory for the events of September 11th, and memory for the source of that information, in MTL/D patients, FL patients, and healthy subjects. Only the MTL/D patients were impaired in long-term memory for the event itself, measured after a 6 month retention interval. The FL patients, on the other hand, showed a selective deficit in source memory, although their memory for the target event was unimpaired. MTL/D and FL structures appear to play different roles in memory for flashbulb events.
AB - A flashbulb memory (FM) is a vivid, enduring memory for how one learned about a surprising, shocking event. It thus involves memory for the source of event information, as opposed to memory for the event itself. Which brain regions are involved in FM, however, is uncertain. Although medial temporal lobe/diencephalic (MTL/D) damage impairs content or item memory, frontal lobe (FL) damage has been associated with impaired source memory. One would therefore expect that FM should depend on the FLs, although two recent reports do not support this idea. In the current study, we examined memory for the events of September 11th, and memory for the source of that information, in MTL/D patients, FL patients, and healthy subjects. Only the MTL/D patients were impaired in long-term memory for the event itself, measured after a 6 month retention interval. The FL patients, on the other hand, showed a selective deficit in source memory, although their memory for the target event was unimpaired. MTL/D and FL structures appear to play different roles in memory for flashbulb events.
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U2 - 10.1080/13803390490919335
DO - 10.1080/13803390490919335
M3 - Article
C2 - 16183624
AN - SCOPUS:25444482163
SN - 1380-3395
VL - 27
SP - 915
EP - 929
JO - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
JF - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
IS - 7
ER -