Arnaud D'Argembeau

Modulation of medial prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices when thinking about past, present, and future selves. (2009)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Stawarczyk, David, Majerus, Steve, Collette, Fabienne, Van Der Linden, Martial, Salmon, Eric

Recent functional neuroimaging studies have shown that reflecting on representations of the present self versus temporally distant selves is associated with higher activity in the medial prefrontal...

The Neural Basis of Personal Goal Processing When Envisioning Future Events. (2009)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Stawarczyk, David, Majerus, Steve, Collette, Fabienne, Van Der Linden, Martial, Feyers, Dorothée, ...

Abstract Episodic future thinking allows humans to mentally simulate virtually infinite future possibilities, yet this device is fundamentally goal-directed and should not be equated with fantasizing...

Neural Correlates of Envisioning Emotional Events in the near and Far Future (2008)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Xue, Gui, Lu, Zhong-Lin, Van Der Linden, Martial, Bechara, Antoine

Being able to envision emotional events that might happen in the future has a clear adaptive value. This study addressed the functional neuroanatomy of this process and investigated whether it is...

Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future in Schizophrenia (2008)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Raffard, Stéphane, Van Der Linden, Martial

It has been suggested that patients with schizophrenia experience a distorted sense of continuity of self across time. However, temporal aspects of self-processing have received little empirical...

Embodiment effects in memory for facial identity and facial expression (2008)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Lepper, Miriam, Van Der Linden, Martial

Research suggests that states of the body, such as postures, facial expressions, and arm movements, play central roles in social information processing. This study investigated the effects of...

Identity recognition and happy and sad facial expression recall: Influence of depressive symptoms (2008)

Jermann, Françoise, Van Der Linden, Martial, D'Argembeau, Arnaud

Relatively few studies have examined memory bias for social stimuli in depression or dysphoria. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of depressive symptoms on memory for facial...

Phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories and imagined events in sub-clinical obsessive-compulsive checkers (2008)

Zermatten, Ariane, Van Der Linden, Martial, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Ceschi, Grazia

Phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories and imagined experiences were examined in checking- and non-checking-prone individuals. Participants were asked to retrieve a positive, a...

Remembering pride and shame: Self-enhancement and the phenomenology of autobiographical memory (2008)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

People's self-images are grounded in autobiographical memories and, in particular, in the phenomenological experience associated with remembering. The desire to increase or maintain the positivity of...

Imagerie cérébrale de la réflexion sur soi (2008)

Salmon, Eric, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Bastin, Christine, Feyers, Dorothée, Phillips, Christophe, Laureys, Steven, ...

Precise brain regions are activated when a subject gives a judgment on himself. Those are the medial parietal cortex, essentially related to episodic memory processing, and the ventromedial...

Self-reflection across time: cortical midline structures differentiate between present and past selves (2008)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Feyers, Dorothée, Majerus, Steve, Collette, Fabienne, Van Der Linden, Martial, Maquet, Pierre, ...

The processing of personal changes across time and the ability to differentiate between representations of present and past selves are crucial for developing a mature sense of identity. In this...

Face Recognition Failures in Schizotypy (2007)

Laroi, Frank, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Brédart, Serge, Van Der Linden, Martial

INTRODUCTION: Studies suggest an important role of disturbances of self in schizophrenia and in schizotypy. Based on findings from a previous study (Bredart & Young, 2004), we developed a...

Facial expressions of emotion influence memory for facial identity in an automatic way (2007)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

Previous studies indicate that the encoding of new facial identities in memory is influenced by the type of expression displayed by the faces. fit the current study, the authors investigated whether...

Distinct regions of the medial prefrontal cortex are associated with self-referential processing and perspective taking (2007)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Ruby, Perinne, Collette, Fabienne, Degueldre, Christian, Balteau, Evelyne, Luxen, André, ...

The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) appears to play a prominent role in two fundamental aspects of social cognition, that is, self-referential processing and perspective taking. However, it is...

Social mind representation: Where does it fail in frontotemporal dementia? (2007)

Ruby, P, Schmidt, Christina, Hogge, Michaël, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Collette, Fabienne, Salmon, Eric

We aimed at investigating social disability and its cerebral correlates in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). To do so, we contrasted answers of patients with early-stage FTD and of their relatives on...

Emotional aspects of mental time travel (2007)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

We consider three possible reasons why humans might accord a privileged status to emotional information when mentally traveling backward or forward in time. First, mental simulation of emotional...

Sleep-related hippocampo-cortical interplay during emotional memory recollection. (2007)

Sterpenich, Virginie, Albouy, Geneviève, Boly, Mélanie, Vandewalle, Gilles, Darsaud, Annabelle, Balteau, Evelyne, ...

Emotional events are usually better remembered than neutral ones. This effect is mediated in part by a modulation of the hippocampus by the amygdala. Sleep plays a role in the consolidation of...

The effects of angry and happy expressions on recognition memory for unfamiliar faces in delusion-prone individuals (2006)

Laroi, Frank, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

Numerous studies suggest a cognitive bias for threat-related material in delusional ideation. However, few studies have examined this bias using a memory task. We investigated the influence of...

Autobiographical memory in non-amnesic alcohol-dependent patients (2006)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial, Verbanck, Paul, Noël, Xavier

Background. Chronic alcohol abuse is associated with a wide range of cognitive deficits. However, little is known about memory for real-life events (autobiographical memory) in non-amnesic alcoholic...

The locus ceruleus is involved in the successful retrieval of emotional memories in humans (2006)

Sterpenich, Virginie, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Desseilles, Martin, Balteau, Evelyne, Albouy, Geneviève, Vandewalle, Gilles, ...

Emotional memories are better remembered than neutral ones. The amygdala is involved in this enhancement not only by modulating the hippocampal activity, but possibly also by modulating central...

Phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories for social and non-social events in social phobia (2006)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial, D'Acremont, Mathieu, Mayers, Isabelle

Previous studies failed to show clear differences between people with social phobia and non-anxious individuals regarding the specificity and affective intensity of their autobiographical memories...

Individual differences in the phenomenology of mental time travel: The effect of vivid visual imagery and emotion regulation strategies (2006)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

It has been claimed that the ability to remember the past and the ability to project oneself into the future are intimately related. We sought support for this proposition by examining whether...

Influence of emotion on memory for temporal information (2005)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

Contextual information. such as color and spatial location, has been found to be better remembered for emotional than for neutral items. The current study examined whether the influence of emotion...

Affective valence and the self-reference effect: influence of retrieval conditions (2005)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Comblain, Christine, Van Der Linden, Martial

Positive trait information is typically better recalled than negative trait information when encoded in reference to the self, but not when encoded in reference to someone else or when processed for...

Self-referential reflective activity and its relationship with rest : a PET study (2005)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Collette, Fabienne, Van Der Linden, Martial, Laureys, Steven, Del Fiore, Guy, Degueldre, Christian, ...

This study used positron emission tomography (PET) to identify the brain substrate of self-referential reflective activity and to investigate its relationship with brain areas that are active during...

Phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories for emotional and neutral events in older and younger adults (2005)

Comblain, Christine, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

The authors investigated age-related differences in phenomenal characteristics of autobiographical memories for positive, negative, and neutral events. Younger and older participants were asked to...

Phenomenal characteristics associated with projecting oneself back into the past and forward into the future: Influence of valence and temporal distance (2004)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

As humans, we frequently engage in mental time travel, reliving past experiences and imagining possible future events. This study examined whether similar factors affect the subjective experience...

The effect of ageing on the recollection of emotional and neutral pictures (2004)

Comblain, Christine, D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial, Aldenhoff, Laurence

This study investigated age-related differences in recognition memory for emotional and neutral pictures. Younger and older participants were asked to rate pictures according to their emotional...

Identity but not expression memory for unfamiliar faces is affected by ageing (2004)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

We examined age-related differences in memory for identity and emotional expression of unfamiliar faces. Younger and older adults were presented with happy and angry faces and were later asked to...

Influence of affective meaning on memory for contextual information (2004)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial

In 4 experiments, the authors investigated the influence of the affective meaning of words on memory for 2 kinds of contextual features that differ in the amount of effortful processes they require...

Identity and expression memory for happy and angry faces in social anxiety (2003)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial, Etienne, Anne-Marie, Comblain, Christine

We examined the influence of social anxiety on memory for both identity and emotional expressions of unfamiliar faces. Participants high and low in social anxiety were presented with happy and angry...

The effects of happy and angry expressions on identity and expression memory for unfamiliar faces (2003)

D'Argembeau, Arnaud, Van Der Linden, Martial, Comblain, Christine, Etienne, Anne-Marie

We investigated the influence of happy and angry expressions on memory for new faces. Participants were presented with happy and angry faces in an intentional or incidental learning condition and...