Unwanted Traumatic Intrusions: The Role of Pre-Trauma Individual Differences in Executive Control

The Act of Remembering: Toward an Understanding of How We Recall the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 337-360

  Verwoerd, Johan ^a   Wessel, Ineke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anderson and Green's the Think No Think (TNT) paradigm; Clinical theories of PTSD intrusive re experiencing reflecting direct retrieval process; Cognitive impairments in PTSD and toxic effects of exposure to traumatic event; Deficient executive control, vulnerability factor inability to disengage attention from perceptual trauma reminders; Executive control in experimental memory literature; Interference control and intrusive memories; Memory, evoking amazement and wonder; Traumatic event and involuntary remembering a radically different experience; Unwanted traumatic intrusions pre trauma individual role in executive control; Working memory, temporary active long term memory (LTM) under executive or attentional controller

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EID: 84858183931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328202.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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