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Título:
EMOTIONAL EPISODIC MEMORY FORMATION DURING COVID-19 QUARANTINE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Autor/es:
LEON, CANDELA S.; BONILLA, MATIAS; URRETA BENÍTEZ, FACUNDO A.; FORCATO, CECILIA
Reunión:
Congreso; XXXV Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias. 2020. Virtual Meeting.; 2020
Resumen:
Episodic memory is the ability to recover past experiences and projects ourselves into the future. It is related to contextual information(both spatially and temporally). This type of memory is highly sensitive to aging, the passage of time, forgetfulness, interference andconfusion 1. Furthermore, episodic memory processes are modulated by both anxiety and depression 2,3. People's mental health hasdeteriorated due to the Covid-19 pandemic, showing higher levels in both values 4. There is a general consensus that pleasant or aversiveevents are better remembered than neutral events5. Regarding false memories, there is no such consensus. Some authors found thatemotional content generates more false memories6, however, it was also found that negative content reduces false memories 7. In thisstudy we evaluated the effects of emotional variables, such as anxiety and depression, on memory encoding and consolidation of true andfalse details of aversive and neutral stories.