Differentiating location-and distance-based processes in memory for time: An ERP study
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2003
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
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Memory for the time of events may benefit from reconstructive, location-based, and distance-based processes, but these processes are difficult to dissociate with behavioral methods. Neuropsychological research has emphasized the contribution of prefrontal brain mechanisms to memory for time but has not clearly differentiated location- from distance-based processing. The present experiment recorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) while subjects completed two different temporal memory tests, designed to emphasize either location- or distance-based processing. The subjects’ reports of location-based versus distance-based strategies and the reaction time pattern validated our experimental manipulation. Late (800–1,800 msec) frontal ERP effects were related to location-based processing. The results provide support for a two-process theory of memory for time and suggest that frontal memory mechanisms are specifically related to reconstructive, location-based processing.
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child abuse, memory, temporal knowledge, Neuropsychological research, location-based processes, distance-based processes
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Curran, T., & Friedman, W. J. (2003). Differentiating location-and distance-based processes in memory for time: An ERP study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10(3), 711-717.