Sex Differences in the Neural Correlates of Specific and General Autobiographical Memory.

ABSTRACT: Autobiographical memory (AM) underlies the formation and temporal continuity over time of personal identity. The few studies on sex-related differences in AM suggest that men and women adopt different cognitive or emotional strategies when retrieving AMs. However, none of the previous works has taken into account the distinction between episodic autobiographical memory (EAM), consisting in the retrieval of specific events by means of mental time travel, and semantic autobiographical memory (SAM), which stores general personal events. Thus, it remains unclear whether differences in these strategies depend on the nature of the memory content to be retrieved. In the present study we employed functional MRI to examine brain activity underlying potential sex differences in EAM and SAM retrieval

SUBMITTER: Compere L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4913091 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature