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Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination
Cognitive symptoms of depression, such as rumination, have shown to be associated with deficits in working memory functioning. More precisely, the capacity to expel irrelevant negative information from working memory seems to be affected. Even though these associations have repeatedly been demonstra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24595102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090632 |
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author | Onraedt, Thomas Koster, Ernst H. W. |
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description | Cognitive symptoms of depression, such as rumination, have shown to be associated with deficits in working memory functioning. More precisely, the capacity to expel irrelevant negative information from working memory seems to be affected. Even though these associations have repeatedly been demonstrated, the nature and causal direction of this association is still unclear. Therefore, within an experimental design, we tried to manipulate working memory functioning of participants with heightened rumination scores in two similar experiments (n = 72 and n = 45) using a six day working memory training compared to active and passive control groups. Subsequently the effects on the processing of non-emotional and emotional information in working memory were monitored. In both experiments, performance during the training task significantly increased, but this performance gain did not transfer to the outcome working memory tasks or rumination and depression measures. Possible explanations for the failure to find transfer effects are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-39409092014-03-06 Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination Onraedt, Thomas Koster, Ernst H. W. PLoS One Research Article Cognitive symptoms of depression, such as rumination, have shown to be associated with deficits in working memory functioning. More precisely, the capacity to expel irrelevant negative information from working memory seems to be affected. Even though these associations have repeatedly been demonstrated, the nature and causal direction of this association is still unclear. Therefore, within an experimental design, we tried to manipulate working memory functioning of participants with heightened rumination scores in two similar experiments (n = 72 and n = 45) using a six day working memory training compared to active and passive control groups. Subsequently the effects on the processing of non-emotional and emotional information in working memory were monitored. In both experiments, performance during the training task significantly increased, but this performance gain did not transfer to the outcome working memory tasks or rumination and depression measures. Possible explanations for the failure to find transfer effects are discussed. Public Library of Science 2014-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3940909/ /pubmed/24595102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090632 Text en © 2014 Onraedt, Koster http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Onraedt, Thomas Koster, Ernst H. W. Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination |
title | Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination |
title_full | Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination |
title_fullStr | Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination |
title_full_unstemmed | Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination |
title_short | Training Working Memory to Reduce Rumination |
title_sort | training working memory to reduce rumination |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24595102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090632 |
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