The dissociation of explicit and implicit memory in depressed-patients

Catégorie

Journal Article

Auteurs

Bazin, N., Perruchet, P., Debonis, M., Féline, A.

Année

1994

Titre

The dissociation of explicit and implicit memory in depressed-patients

Journal / Livre / Conférence

Psychological Medicine

Résumé

Twenty-three in-patients fulfilling DSM-III-R criteria for major depressive disorder were submitted to a standard cued recall test, and to a word-stem completion test devised to assess the effect of the initial presentation without the explicit retrieval of the words being necessary.
Results show that depressed patients are impaired on the cued recall task in comparison with controls matched for sex, age, and educational level. However, the two groups do not differ in the word- stem completion task. This dissociation between explicit and implicit expressions of memory disappeared when patients recovered, although they were still hospitalized and under psychotropic medication. These results are examined in the light of the distinction between effortful and automatic processes.

Issue

1

Volume

24

Pages

239-245

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