Individuals with depressive tendencies experience difficulty in forgetting negative material: two mechanisms revealed by ERP data in the directed forgetting paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Although previous studies have shown that individuals with depressive tendencies have deficits in forgetting negative material, the detailed underlying neural mechanisms have not been elucidated. This study examined the intentional forgetting of negative and neutral material in individuals with depressive tendencies in two phases. In the study phase, the participants performed a directed forgetting task, where a total of 320 words were presented to them, each followed by an instructive cue to forget or remember the previously presented word. Subsequently, in the memory recognition test phase, the participants completed the "old or new discrimination task". The results indicated that individuals with depressive tendencies had difficulties suppressing the memory encoding of negative words, w

SUBMITTER: Xie H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5773552 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature