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Visuospatial Working Memory Tasks May Not Reduce the Intensity or Distress of Intrusive Memories

Cognitive interventions involving visuospatial tasks, such as the game “Tetris” have demonstrated efficacy in reducing the frequency of intrusive memories. However, it remains unclear whether these tasks also reduce the perceived intensity and distress of these memories. We investigated whether eith...

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Autores principales: Badawi, Amalia, Steel, Zachary, Berle, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8851055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35185648
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.769957
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description Cognitive interventions involving visuospatial tasks, such as the game “Tetris” have demonstrated efficacy in reducing the frequency of intrusive memories. However, it remains unclear whether these tasks also reduce the perceived intensity and distress of these memories. We investigated whether either of two visuospatial tasks: a Tetris intervention or Digital Corsi task, following the viewing of an analog trauma (film) resulted in decreased intensity and distress for intrusive memories over the following week, when compared to a control condition. Participants (n = 110) were randomly assigned to task conditions after viewing the film. Linear mixed models indicated no between-group differences for reductions in intensity or distress over the course of the week. These findings highlight an important boundary to the benefits of such visuospatial tasks, in that while they may be associated with reductions in intrusion memory frequency, individuals may nonetheless continue to experience distress when intrusions do occur.
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spelling pubmed-88510552022-02-18 Visuospatial Working Memory Tasks May Not Reduce the Intensity or Distress of Intrusive Memories Badawi, Amalia Steel, Zachary Berle, David Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Cognitive interventions involving visuospatial tasks, such as the game “Tetris” have demonstrated efficacy in reducing the frequency of intrusive memories. However, it remains unclear whether these tasks also reduce the perceived intensity and distress of these memories. We investigated whether either of two visuospatial tasks: a Tetris intervention or Digital Corsi task, following the viewing of an analog trauma (film) resulted in decreased intensity and distress for intrusive memories over the following week, when compared to a control condition. Participants (n = 110) were randomly assigned to task conditions after viewing the film. Linear mixed models indicated no between-group differences for reductions in intensity or distress over the course of the week. These findings highlight an important boundary to the benefits of such visuospatial tasks, in that while they may be associated with reductions in intrusion memory frequency, individuals may nonetheless continue to experience distress when intrusions do occur. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8851055/ /pubmed/35185648 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.769957 Text en Copyright © 2022 Badawi, Steel and Berle. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_sort visuospatial working memory tasks may not reduce the intensity or distress of intrusive memories
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8851055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35185648
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.769957
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