Impaired context maintenance in mild to moderately depressed students.

Msetfi, Rachel M. and Murphy, Robin A. and Kornbrot, Diana E. and Simpson, Jane (2009) Impaired context maintenance in mild to moderately depressed students. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62 (4). pp. 653-662. ISSN 1747-0218

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Abstract

We test the hypothesis that people with depression experience difficulties in maintaining task-relevant context information over longer periods of time using the AX version of the continuous performance task (AX-CPT). The AX-CPT requires that participants maintain a context cue (A) in an active state in order to respond correctly to a target cue (X) presented after a short delay. A total of 40 nondepressed and mild to moderately depressed students completed versions of the task with short (1-s) or long (10-s) interstimulus intervals (ISIs). Mildly depressed participants made significantly more context-dependent (BX) errors, unlike controls who made more errors on trials where good context processing would impair performance (AY). This pattern of errors was only evident in the long ISI condition, suggesting poor maintenance of contextual information

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Journal Article
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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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?? cognitive psychologycomparative psychologycontextdepressionax-cptcontinuous performance taskstudent sampleneuropsychology and physiological psychologygeneral psychologyexperimental and cognitive psychologyphysiologyphysiology (medical)psychology(all)r med ??
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32272
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18 Mar 2010 13:26
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