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Differential Patterns of Social Attention and Memory Profiles in Depression: Evidence From Third-Person Social Interaction Processing.
| Τίτλος: | Differential Patterns of Social Attention and Memory Profiles in Depression: Evidence From Third-Person Social Interaction Processing. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Tang E; The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, zju.edu.cn.; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, zju.edu.cn.; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, harvard.edu., Zhang XM; Department of Psychiatry, Huzhou Third Municipal Hospital, Huzhou, China., Li J; Nanjing Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, njmu.edu.cn., Liu Y; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, zju.edu.cn.; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Precision Psychiatry, Hangzhou, China., Shen ZX; Department of Psychiatry, Huzhou Third Municipal Hospital, Huzhou, China., Chen H; The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, zju.edu.cn.; Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, zju.edu.cn. |
| Πηγή: | Depression and anxiety [Depress Anxiety] 2026 Jun 30; Vol. 2026, pp. 7518415. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Jun 30 (Print Publication: 2026). |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Wiley Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9708816 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1520-6394 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10914269 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Depress Anxiety Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: New York, NY : Wiley, c1997- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Major Depressive Disorder*/physiopathology , Major Depressive Disorder*/psychology , Attention*/physiology , Memory, Short-Term*/physiology , Memory, Long-Term*/physiology , Social Interaction* , Interpersonal Relations*, Humans ; Female ; Male ; Adult ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Middle Aged |
| Περίληψη: | Although social interaction is crucial for human social life, it poses unique challenges for individuals with depressive symptoms. From a third-person perspective, this study employed two cross-sectional experiments to investigate how depressive symptoms modulate whether the benefits of social interaction transfer to attention and memory functions, which constitute core processes underpinning successful interpersonal relationships and social engagement. A total of 72 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 72 demographically matched healthy control subjects (HCS) were recruited. Experiment 1 adopted a visual search (VS) task in which participants identified socially interactive or noninteractive individuals amid distractors. Experiment 2 included a working memory (WM) task focusing on interpersonal spatial distance and a long-term memory (LTM) task requiring the recollection of paired relationships. Compared to HCS, MDD patients exhibited preserved social attention benefits induced by social interactions, as evidenced by their higher search efficiency for socially interactive dyads. In contrast, MDD patients showed no evidence of either spatial compression effects induced by social intimacy in working memory or enhanced memory traces for interactive dyads in LTM. These findings suggest that individuals with depressive symptoms can benefit from social interactions to facilitate attention, but not memory functioning. Uncovering these differential patterns of attention and memory performance in social cognition challenges the traditional conceptualization of global social cognitive impairment in depression. The current findings also pave the way for targeted social memory training programs and interventions aimed at improving the quality of life in this population. (Copyright © 2026 Enze Tang et al. Depression and Anxiety published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) |
| Competing Interests: | The authors declare no conflicts of interest. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: attention; major depressive disorder; memory; social cognition; social interaction |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260701 Date Completed: 20260701 Latest Revision: 20260703 |
| Update Code: | 20260703 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13316134 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/da/7518415 |
| PMID: | 42382374 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1520-6394 |
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| DOI: | 10.1155/da/7518415 |