Understanding mnemic neglect in self-evaluation: a sleep-based memory consolidation perspective

Professor Hu, Xiaoqing   (Principal Investigator (PI))

Dr Ma Yina   (Co-Investigator)

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2018-12-01

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Understanding mnemic neglect in self-evaluation: a sleep-based memory consolidation perspective

memory consolidation, mnemic neglect, motivated forgetting, self-evaluative memory, sleep

Psychology

Humanities & Social Sciences (H)

17601318

General Research Fund (GRF)

2018

Completed

1) To investigate the extent to which sleep and wakefulness influence the consolidation of self-evaluative memories and mnemic neglect (Experiments 1 and 2); 2) To explore sleep-related neural processes that underlie the consolidation of self-evaluative memories and mnemic neglect (Experiment 2); 3)To examine whether we can directly reactivate positive self-evaluative memory during sleep to strengthen positive self-evaluations and to restore the impaired mnemic neglect among people with high depressive symptoms (Experiment 3);