Although the infant-caregiver attachment bond is critical to survival, little is known about the biological mechanisms supporting attachment representations in humans. Oxytocin plays a key role in attachment bond formation and maintenance in animals and thus could be expected to affect attachment representations in humans. To investigate this possibility, we administered 24 IU intranasal oxytoc...

The mnemonic effect of posting personal experiences on ephemeral social media was examined. Participants completed a daily diary for 6 consecutive days. On alternate days they were instructed to use, or refrain from using, the platform Snapchat. At end week, participants received surprise memory test contents diaries. We observed significantly superior recall memories encoded Snapchat days, dem...

This position statement addresses the use of specific techniques whose central focus and intent is to elicit memories of childhood abuse. The Statement does not concern reports of individuals who seek therapy with already existing memories of childhood abuse or where the authenticity of memories has been corroborated by reliable outside sources. Childhood physical and sexual abuse is associated...

RESUMEN En este artículo revisaremos 6 trabajos que se centran en el impacto que tienen hechos de carácter sociopolítico, estructuras identitarias y reacciones emocionales en la creación, transmisión y mantenimiento de las memorias colectivas. Estos trabajos analizan el recuerdo de hechos históricos y la manera en que este recuerdo está influido por la edad o género de las personas. Se verá cóm...

Cognitive models of social phobia propose that negative self-images play an important role in maintaining anxiety. This study examines the effect of holding a positive or a negative image in mind during a speech on the retrieval of autobiographical memories. Twenty high socially anxious participants performed a standard autobiographical memory task (AMT), which used positive, negative and neutr...

The fuzzy morphological associative memories (FMAM) have many attractive advantages, but their recall effects for hetero associative memories are poor. This shortcoming impedes the application of hetero-FMAM. Aiming at the problem, and inspired by the unified framework of morphological associative memories, a new method called no rounding reverse fuzzy morphological associative memories (NRFMAM...