What happens to personal identity when semantic knowledge degrades? A study of the self and autobiographical memory in semantic dementia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 254-265

  Duval, Céline ^a   Desgranges, Béatrice ^a   de La Sayette, Vincent ^a,d   Belliard, Serge ^a,e   Eustache, Francis ^a   Piolino, Pascale ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^e PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Episodic memory, Personal semantic memory; Mental time travel; Self representation; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84855891371     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.019     Document Type: Article

References (123)

1. Addis D.R., Tippett L.J. Memory of myself: Autobiographical memory and identity in Alzheimer's disease. Memory 2004, 12:56-74.
2. Addis D.R., Wong A.T., Schacter D.L. Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45:1363-1377.
3. Agniel A., Joanette Y., Doyon B., Duchein C. Protocole d'évaluation des gnosies visuelles 1992, OrthoEditions, Isbergues.
4. Anderson R.J., Dewhurst S.A. Remembering the past and imagining the future: Differences in event specificity of spontaneously generated thought. Memory 2009, 17:367-373.
5. Arzy S., Collette S., Ionta S., Fornari E., Blanke O. Subjective mental time: The functional architecture of projecting the self to past and future. European Journal of Neuroscience 2009, 30:2009-2017.
6. Belliard S., Moreaud O. Batterie d'évaluation des connaissances sémantiques (BECS-GRECO). GREMOIRE: tests et échelles de la maladie d'Alzheimer et des syndromes apparentés 2008, the GRESEM, Solal, Marseille, pp. 83-85.
7. Belliard S., Perron M., Rouyer F., Golfier V., Sartori E., Edan G. Présentation d'une batterie française de personnes célèbres. Résultats auprès de patients atteints de démence sémantique. Revue Neurologique 2001, 157:10-14.
8. Blagov P., Singer J.A. Four dimensions of self-defining memories (content, specificity, meaning, and affect) and their relationship to self-restraint, distress, and repressive defensiveness. Journal of Personality 2004, 72:481-511.
9. Bozeat S., Ralph M.A., Patterson K., Hodges J.R. The influence of personal familiarity and context on object use in semantic dementia. Neurocase 2002, 8:127-134.
10. Broemer P., Grabowski A., Gebauer J.E., Ermel O., Diehl M. How temporal distance from past selves influences self-perception. European Journal of Social Psychology 2008, 38:697-714.
11. Buckner R.L., Carroll D.C. Self-projection and the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2007, 11:49-57.
12. Byrne B.M. Measuring self concept across the life span: Issues and instrumentation 1996, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
13. Campbell J.D., Trapnell P.D., Haine S.J., Katz I.M., Lavallee L.F., Lehman D.R. Self-concept clarity: Measurement, personality correlates, and cultural boundaries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1996, 70:141-156.
14. Cardebat D., Doyon B., Puel M., Goulet P., Joanette Y. Evocation lexicale formelle et sémantique chez des sujets normaux Performances et dynamiques de production en fonction du sexe, de l'âge et du niveau d'étude. Acta Neurologica Belgica 1990, 90:207-217.
15. Chan D., Fox N.C., Scahill R.I., Crum W.R., Whitwell J.L., Leschziner G., et al. Patterns of temporal lobe atrophy in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Annals of Neurology 2001, 49:433-442.
16. Conway M.A. Memory and the self. Journal of Memory and Language 2005, 53:594-628.
17. Conway M.A. Episodic memories. Neuropsychologia 2009, 47:2305-2313.
18. Conway M.A., Singer J.A., Tagini A. The self and autobiographical memory: Correspondence and coherence. Social Cognition 2004, 5:491-529.
19. Coopersmith S. Inventaire d'estime de soi (S.E.I.) 1984, Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée, Paris.
20. Damasio A. The feeling of what happens: Body and emotion in the making of consciousness 1999, Harcourt College Publishers, Fort Worth, TX.
21. D'Argembeau A., Van der Linden M. Individual differences in the phenomenology of mental time travel: The effect of vivid visual imagery and emotion regulation strategies. Consciousness and Cognition 2006, 15:342-350.
22. Deloche G., Hannequin D. Test de dénomination oral d'images DO80 1997, Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée, Paris.
23. Desgranges B., Matuszewski V., Piolino P., Chételat G., Mézenge F., Landeau B., de La Sayette V., Belliard S., Eustache F. Anatomical and functional alterations in semantic dementia: A voxel-based MRI and PET study. Neurobiology of Aging 2007, 28:1904-1913.
24. Duval, C., Bejanin, A., Piolino, P., Lainey, M., de La Sayette, V., Belliard, S., Eustache, F., & Desgranges, B. Theory of mind impairments in patients with semantic dementia. Brain, in press.
25. Duval C., Desgranges B., Eustache F., Piolino P. Looking at the self under the microscope of cognitive neurosciences. From self-consciousness to consciousness of others. Psychologie et NeuroPsychiatrie du Vieillissement 2009, 7:7-19.
26. Duval, C., Desgranges, B., Eustache, F., & Piolino, P. The specificity of age effects on the multifaced self in memory, submitted for publication.
27. Duval C., Eustache F., Piolino P. Multidimentional self autobiographical memory and aging. Psychologie et Neuropsychiatrie du Vieillissement 2007, 5:179-192.
28. Erikson M.G. The meaning of the future: Toward a more specific definition of possible selves. Review of General Psychology 2007, 11:348-358.
29. Eustache F., Piolino P., Giffard B., Viader F., de La Sayette V., Baron J.C., Desgranges B. In the course of time: A PET study of the cerebral substrates of autobiographical amnesia in Alzheimer's disease. Brain 2004, 22:1549-1560.
30. Fargeau M.N., Jaafari N., Ragot S., Houeto J.L., Pluchon C., Gil R. Alzheimer's disease and impairment of the self. Consciousness and Cognition 2011, 19:969-976.
31. Fernandes M., Ross M., Wiegand M., Schryer E. Are the memories of older adults positively biased?. Psychology and Aging 2008, 23(2):297-306.
32. Feyers D., Collette F., D'Argembeau A., Majerus S., Salmon E. Neural networks involved in self-judgment in young and elderly adults. NeuroImage 2010, 53:341-347.
33. Fitts W.H., Warren W.L. Tennessee self-concept scale manual 1996, Western Psychological Services, Los Angeles. 2nd ed.
34. Giovannetti T., Sestito N., Libon D.J., Schmidt K.S., Gallo J.L., Gambino M., Chrysikou E.G. The influence of personal familiarity on object naming, knowledge, and use in dementia. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2006, 21:607-614.
35. Gorno-Tempini M.L., Rankin K.P., Woolley J.D., Rosen H.J., Phengrasamy L., Miller B.L. Cognitive and behavioral profile in a case of right anterior temporal lobe neurodegeneration. Cortex 2004, 40:631-644.
36. Graham K.S., Hodges J.R. Differentiating the roles of the hippocampal complex and the neocortex in long term storage: Evidence from the study of semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology 1997, 11:77-89.
37. Haslam C., Jetten J., Haslam S.A., Pugliese C., Tonks J. I remember therefore I am, and I am therefore I remember: Exploring the contributions of episodic and semantic self-knowledge to strength of identity. British Journal of Psychology 2010, 102:184-203.
38. Hassabis D., Kumaran D., Vann S.D., Maguire E.A. Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007, 104:1726-1731.
39. Hassabis D., Maguire E.A. Deconstructing episodic memory with construction. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2007, 11:299-306.
40. Hehman J., German T.P., Klein S.B. Impaired self recognition from recent photographs in a case of late-stage Alzheimer's disease. Social Cognition 2005, 23:116-121.
41. Hodges J.R., Garrard P., Perry R., Patterson K., Ward R., Bak T.H., Gregory C.A. The differentiation of semantic dementia and frontal lobe dementia (temporal and frontal variants of frontotemporal dementia) from early Alzheimer's disease: a comparative neuropsychological study. Neuropsychology 1999, 13:31-40.
42. Hodges J.R., Miller B.L. The neuropsychology of frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia. Introduction to the special topic papers: part II. Neurocase 2001, 7:113-121.
43. Hodges J.R., Patterson K. Non-fluent progressive aphasia and semantic dementia: A comparative neuropsychological study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 1996, 2:511-524.
44. Hodges J.R., Patterson K. Semantic dementia: A unique clinicopathological syndrome. Lancet Neurology 2007, 6:1004-1014.
45. Hodges J.R., Patterson K., Oxbury S., Funnell E. Semantic dementia progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy. Brain 1992, 115:1783-1806.
46. Hou C.E., Miller B.L., Kramer J.H. Patterns of autobiographical memory loss in dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2005, 20:809-815.
47. Ivanoiu A., Cooper J.M., Shanks M.F., Venneri A. Patterns of impairment in autobiographical memory in the degenerative dementias constrain models of memory. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:1936-1955.
48. James W. The principles of psychology 1890, Henry Holt, New York.
49. Kihlstrom J.F., Beer J.S., Klein S.B. Self and identity as memory. Handbook of self and identity 2002, 68-90. Guilford Press, New York. M.R. Leary, J. Tangney (Eds.).
50. Klein S.B. The self: As a construct in psychology and neuropsychological evidence for its multiplicity. WIREs Cognitive Science 2010, 1:172-183.
51. Klein, S. B. The two selves: the self of conscious experience and its brain. In M. Leary (Ed.), The handbook of self and identity (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press, in press.
52. Klein S.B., Chan R.L., Loftus J. Independence of episodic and semantic self-knowledge: The case from autism. Social Cognition 1999, 17:413-436.
53. Klein S.B., Cosmides L., Costabile K.A. Preserved knowledge of self in a case of Alzheimer's dementia. Social Cognition 2003, 21:157-165.
54. Klein S.B., Cosmides L., Tooby J., Chance S. Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions. Psychological Review 2002, 109:306-329.
55. Klein S.B., Lax M.L. The unanticipated resilience of trait self-knowledge in the face of neural damage. Memory 2010, 18:918-948.
56. Klein S.B., Loftus J., Kihlstrom J.F. Self-knowledge of an amnesic patient: Toward a neuropsychology of personality and social psychology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1996, 125:250-260.
57. Klein S.B., Loftus J., Kihlstrom J.F. Memory and temporal experience: the effect of episodic memory loss on an amnesic patient's ability to remember the past and imagine de future. Social Cognition 2002, 20:353-379.
58. Klein S.B., Robertson T.E., Gangiand C.E., Loftus J. The functional independence of trait self-knowledge: Commentary on Sakaki (2007). Memory 2007, 16:556-565.
59. Krawczyk, D. C. The cognition and neuroscience of relational reasoning. Brain Research, in press.
60. Kuhn M.H., McPartland T. An empirical investigation of self-attitudes. American Sociological Review 1954, 19:68-76.
61. Legrand D., Ruby P. What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results. Psychological Review 2009, 116:252-282.
62. Levine B., Svoboda E., Hay J.F., Winocur G., Moscovitch M. Aging and autobiographical memory: Dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval. Psychology and Aging 2002, 17:677-689.
63. Lezak M.D. Neuropsychological assessment 1995, Oxford University Press, New York.
64. Maguire E.A., Kumaran D., Hassabis D., Kopelman M.D. Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia: A longitudinal fMRI study. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48:123-136.
65. Mattis S. Mental status examination for organic mental syndrome in the elderly patient. Geriatric psychiatry 1976, 77-121. Grune & Stratton, New York. L. Bellack, T.B. Karusu (Eds.).
66. Markus H., Nurius P. Possible selves. American Psychologist 1986, 41:954-969.
67. Martinelli P., Piolino P. Self-defining memories: Last bastion of episodic memories in normal aging?. Psychologie et NeuroPsychiatrie du Vieillissement 2009, 7:151-167.
68. Martinelli, P., Sperduti, M., & Piolino, P. Neural substrates of the self-memory system: New insights from a meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping, in press.
69. Matuszewski V., Piolino P., Belliard S., de La Sayette V., Laisney M., Lalevée C., Desgranges B. Patterns of autobiographical memory impairment according to disease severity in semantic dementia. Cortex 2009, 45:456-472.
70. McKinnon M., Black S., Miller B., Moscovitch M., Levine B. Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia: Implications for theories of limbic-neocortical interaction in remote memory. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:2421-2429.
71. McNair D.M., Kahn R.J. Self-assessment of cognitive deficits. Assessment in geriatric psychopharmacology 1983, 137-143. Mark Powler Associates, New Canaan, CT. T. Crook (Ed.).
72. Morin A. Levels of consciousness and self-awareness. A comparison and integration of various neurocognitive views. Consciousness and Cognition 2006, 15:358-371.
73. Moss H., Kopelman M.D., Cappelletti M., De Mornay Davies P., Jaldow E. Lost for words or loss of memories? Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2003, 20:703-732.
74. Miyake A., Friedman N.P., Emerson M.J., Witzki A.H., Howerter A., Wager T.D. The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex frontal lobe tasks: A latent variable analysis. Cognitive Psychology 2000, 41:49-100.
75. Neary D., Snowden J.S., Gustafson L., Passant U., Stuss D., Black S., Benson D.F. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: A consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria. Neurology 1998, 51:1546-1554.
76. Nestor P.J., Graham K.S., Bozeat S., Simons J.S., Hodges J.R. Memory consolidation and the hippocampus: Further evidence from studies of autobiographical memory in semantic dementia and frontal variant frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia 2002, 40:633-654.
77. Northoff G., Bermpohl F. Cortical midline structures and the self. Trends in Cognitives Sciences 2004, 8:102-107.
78. Northoff G., Heinzel A., De Greck M., Bermpohl F., Dobrowolny H., Panksepp J. Self-referential processing in our brain: A meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self. NeuroImage 2006, 31:440-457.
79. Noulhiane M., Piolino P., Hasboun D., Baulac M., Samson S. Episodic autobiographical memory and autonoetic consciousness in patients with medial temporal lobe resection: Neuropsychological findings and relation to volumes of medial temporal lobe. Brain 2007, 130:3184-3199.
80. Okuda J., Fujii T., Ohtake H., Tsukiura T., Tanji K., Suzuki K., Yamadori A. Thinking of the future and past: The roles of the frontal pole and the medial temporal lobes. NeuroImage 2003, 19:1369-1380.
81. Panksepp J., Northoff G. The trans-species core SELF: The emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecological agents through self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks. Consciousness and Cognition 2009, 18:193-215.
82. Piolino P., Belliard S., Desgranges B., Perron M., Eustache F. Autobiographical memory and autonoetic consciousness in a case of semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2003, 20:619-639.
83. Piolino P., Desgranges B., Belliard S., Matuszewski V., Lalevee C., de La Sayette V., Eustache F. Autobiographical memory and autonoetic consciousness: Triple dissociation in neurodegenerative diseases. Brain 2003, 126:2203-2219.
84. Piolino P., Desgranges B., Benali K., Eustache F. Episodic and semantic remote autobiographical memory in ageing. Memory 2002, 10:239-257.
85. Piolino P., Desgranges B., Eustache F. Episodic autobiographical memory over the course of time: cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings Special Issue on episodic memory and the brain. Neuropsychologia 2009, 47(11):2314-2329.
86. Pinku G., Tzelgov J. Consciousness of the self (COS) and explicit knowledge. Consciousness and Cognition 2006, 15:655-661.
87. Prabhakaran V., Smith J.A., Desmond J.E., Glover G.H., Gabrieli J.D. Neural substrates of fluid reasoning: An fMRI study of neocortical activation during performance of the Raven's progressive matrices test. Cognitive Psychology 1997, 33:43-63.
88. Quinette P., Guillery B., Desgranges B., de La Sayette V., Viader F., Eustache F. Working memory and executive functions in transient global amnesia. Brain 2003, 126:1917-1934.
89. Rathbone C.J., Moulin A., Conway M.A. Self-centered memories: The reminiscence bump and the self. Memory and Cognition 2008, 36:1403-1414.
90. Raven J. Guide to using the coloured progressive matrices 1965, Lewis, London.
91. Reitan R.M. Validity of the trail making test as an indication of organic brain damage. Percept Motor Skill 1958, 8:271-286.
92. Rubin D.C. A basic-systems approach to autobiographical memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2005, 14:79-83.
93. Rubin D.C., Siegler I.C. Facets of personality and the phenomenology of autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology 2004, 18:913-930.
94. Schacter D.L., Addis D.R. The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: Remembering the past and imagining the future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2007, 362:773-786.
95. Schacter D.L., Addis D.R. The ghosts of past and future. Nature 2007, 445:27.
96. Scheier.M.I., Carver C.S. The self-consciousness scale: A revised version for use with general populations. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 1985, 15:687-699.
97. Seeley W.W., Bauer A.M., Miller B.L., Gorno-Tempini M.L., Kramer J.H., Weiner M., Rosen H.J. The natural history of temporal variant frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2005, 64:1384-1390.
98. Snowden J.S., Goulding P.J., Neary D. Semantic dementia: A form of circumscribed cerebral atrophy. Behavioral Neurology 1989, 2:167-182.
99. Snowden J., Griffith H.R., Neary D. Semantic-episodic memory interactions in semantic dementia: Implications for retrograde memory function. Cognitive Neuropsychology 1996, 13:1101-1137.
100. Squire L.R., van der Horst A.S., McDuff S.G.R., Frascino J.C., Hopkins R.O., Mauldin K.N. Role of the hippocampus in remembering the past and imagining the future. PNAS 2010, 107:19044-19048.
101. Stroop J. Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1935, 28:643-662.
102. Stuss D.T., Gallup G.G., Alexander M.P. The frontal lobes are necessary for 'theory of mind'. Brain 2001, 124:279-286.
103. Swann W.B., Bosson J. Self and identity. Handbook of social psychology 2010, McGraw-Hill, New York. 5th ed. S.T. Fiske, D.T. Gilbert, G. Lindzey (Eds.).
104. Suddendorf T., Addis D.R., Corballis M.C. Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society 2009, 364:1317-1324.
105. Tagini A., Raffone A. The 'I' and the 'Me' in self-referential awareness: A neurocognitive hypothesis. Cognitive Process 2010, 11:9-20.
106. Thomsen D.K., Berntsen D. The cultural life script and life story chapters contribute to the reminiscence bump. Memory 2008, 16:420-435.
107. Tomaszewski Farias S., Jagust W.J. Neuroimaging in non-Alzheimer dementias. Clinical Neuroscience Research 2004, 3:383-395.
108. Troll L.E., McKean Skaff M. Perceived continuity of self in very old age. Psychology and Aging 1997, 12:12-169.
109. Tulving E. Memory and consciousness. Canadian Psychologist 1985, 25:1-12.
110. Tulving E. Self-knowledge of an amnesic individual is represented abstractly. Mental representation of trait and autobiographical knowledge about the self 1993, 147-157. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. T.K. Srull, R.S. Wyer (Eds.).
111. Tulving E. Episodic memory: From mind to brain. Annual Review of Psychology 2002, 53:1-25.
112. Tulving E. Chronesthesia: Awareness of subjective time. Principles of frontal lobe function 2002, 311-325. Oxford University Press, New York. D.T. Stuss, R.C. Knight (Eds.).
113. Tulving E., Schacter D.L., McLachlan D.R., Moscovitch M. Priming of semantic autobiographical knowledge: A case study of retrograde amnesia. Brain and Cognition 1988, 8:3-20.
114. Vallacher R.R. Self: The unity of self, self-consistency. Encyclopedia of Consciousness 2009, 313-325.
115. Vandekerckhove M.M.P. Memory, autonoetic consciousness and the self: Consciousness as a continuum of stages. Self and Identity 2009, 8:4-23.
116. Viard A., Chételat G., Lebreton K., Desgranges B., Landeau B., de La Sayette V., Eustache F., Piolino P. Mental time travel into the past and the future in healthy aged adults: An fMRI study. Brain and Cognition 2011, 75:1-9.
117. Violon A., Wijns C. Le test de la ruche. Test de perception et d'apprentissage progressif en mémoire visuelle. L'Application des techniques modernes 1984, Braine le Château, Belgium.
118. Warrington E.K. The selective impairment of semantic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 1975, 27:635-657.
119. Wechsler D. Echelle clinique de mémoire MEM-III 2001, Les éditions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée, Paris.
120. Westmacott R., Black S.E., Freedman M., Moscovitch M. The contribution of autobiographical significance to semantic memory: Evidence from Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia, and amnesia. Neuropsychologia 2003, 42:25-48.
121. Westmacott R., Leach L., Freedman M., Moscovitch M. Different patterns of autobiographical memory loss in semantic dementia and medial temporal lobe amnesia: A challenge to consolidation theory. Neurocase 2001, 7:37-55.
122. Yesavage J.A., Brink T.L., Rose T.L., Lum O., Huang V., Adey M., et al. Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report. Journal of Psychiatry Research 1982, 17:37-49.
123. Zeman A. What do we mean by conscious and aware?. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 2006, 16:356-376.