Supporting the self-concept with memory: insight from amnesia.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the extent to which personal semantic memory supports the self-concept in individuals with medial temporal lobe amnesia and healthy adults. Participants completed eight 'I Am' self-statements. For each of the four highest ranked self-statements, participants completed an open-ended narrative task, during which they provided supporting information indicating why the I Am statement was considered self-descriptive. Participants then completed an episodic probe task, during which they attempted to retrieve six episodic memories for each of these self-statements. Supporting information was scored as episodic, personal semantic or general semantic. In the narrative task, personal semantic memory predominated as self-supporting information in both groups. The amnesic participants

SUBMITTER: Grilli MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4666106 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature