Mental time travel in mild cognitive impairment

Introduction: Mental Time Travel (MTT) is the people's ability to remember themselves in the past and to imagine themselves in the future, and influence important life domains such as making decisions and planning future actions. It is widely recognized that patients with aMCI have deficits in episodic memory, but they also show impairments in semantic memory. It has been controversial whether MTT tasks are disturbed in aMCI mainly in relation to internal details related to episodic information, or external details, representing semantic and other extraneous information. The present study assessed whether patients with aMCI are affected in MTT regarding generation of internal details and external details, in past and future dimensions. Furthermore, it analyzed production in individual detail categories (internal: event details, thought/emotion, place, time, perceptual; external: extraneous events, semantic, other, repetitions). Method: Twenty-nine patients with aMCI and 29 healthy controls underwent a MTT task based on an Autobiographical Interview, where they had to generate past and future events in response to cue words. Transcriptions were segmented and classified into internal detail categories and external detail categories, and composite scores were obtained. Results: Patients with aMCI could globally produce significantly less details than controls. Similar to controls, patients with aMCI produced more internal details than external details, had more difficulty in generating details regarding the future as compared to the past, and scored higher in the detail categories event details and thought/emotion which represent internal detail types. Conclusions: Patients with aMCI showed widespread deficits in MTT, presumably reflecting deficiencies in the complex and multiple cognitive abilities required for MTT tasks.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Coelho S.
Guerreiro M.
Chester C.
Silva D.
Maroco J.
Paglieri F.
de Mendonca A.
Publisher: 
Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse , Paesi Bassi
Source: 
Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section A, Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 41 (2019): 845–855. doi:10.1080/13803395.2019.1632269
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Coelho S.; Guerreiro M.; Chester C.; Silva D.; Maroco J.; Paglieri F.; de Mendonca A./titolo:Mental time travel in mild cognitive impairment/doi:10.1080/13803395.2019.1632269/rivista:Neuropsychology, development, and cognition.
Date: 
2019
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http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/414361
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2019.1632269
info:doi:10.1080/13803395.2019.1632269
http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-85068378377&origin=inward
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Fabio Paglieri
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