iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to make special thanks to my advisor Elsa Reichmanis who gave me remarkable opportunities by allowing research in the group. I will remember her as a person with deep patience and understanding. Her optimism and support were great cheers to me. Also I share thanks to my committee, Prof. and Yulin Deng, whom I am very proud to be associated with. I will remember...

Think back to lunch yesterday. You likely remember what you ate, where you sat, who you were with, what you talked about, and myriad other details combined in a cohesive memory. Now think back to lunch the day before yesterday. Though many of the details are probably the same, you likely do not have trouble discriminating between the two memories. This example highlights that episodic memories,...

Despite the importance of intrusive memories in clinical disorders, research has been limited by a dearth of paradigms that permit experimental study of intrusions. This study describes a hypnotic paradigm for eliciting intrusive memories. Forty-nine highly hypnotisable participants nominated a distressing memory prior to being hypnotised. During hypnosis, they received the suggestion that they...

Retrieval of episodic memories — conscious memories of past events — often provides critical information that can shape current thought and behavior. Although successful remembering is generally thought of as far more desirable than forgetting, it is likely that forgetting is also an important component of an adaptive memory system (M. C. Anderson, 2003; Bjork, 1989; Schacter, 1999). To fully u...

Memory is one of our fundamental mental functions, which allows us to revive the past in minds. When memory mentioned, we usually want refer a particular kind memory, autobiographical memory. Access these memories can be altered by various affective disorders, especially depression. Regarding techniques, this study aims focus on storytelling contribute resilience children using social robot app...