Illusory ownership of one's younger face facilitates access to childhood episodic autobiographical memories

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An enfacement illusion of ownership for one's younger face enhanced recollection of childhood episodic memory details but not semantic details, indicating an interaction between the bodily self and autobiographical memory.

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The paper studies how inducing a sense of ownership over one’s younger facial image affects retrieval of childhood episodic autobiographical memories. Using experimental manipulations of illusory self-ownership for a younger face, the authors report that participants show improved access to childhood episodic autobiographical memories when the younger face is experienced as belonging to them. A key limitation is that the provided excerpt contains no details on sample characteristics, specific task measures, or the strength of the manipulation beyond the stated outcome. This paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Abstract Autobiographical memories are memories of previous experiences of one’s self, therefore it seems likely that autobiographical memories and self-representations interact in the brain. To test this in relation to the bodily self, we investigated whether the retrieval of childhood autobiographical memories would be facilitated by an illusion of ownership for a ‘child version’ of the participant’s own face. 50 neurologically healthy adults were tested in an online enfacement illusion study. Feelings of ownership and agency for the face were greater during conditions with visuo-motor synchrony than conditions with asynchrony. Critically, participants who viewed their child-like face recollected more childhood episodic memory details than those who viewed their adult face. No effects on autobiographical semantic memory recall were found. This finding indicates that there is an interaction between the bodily self and autobiographical memory. Our experimental paradigm could in future be adapted for its potential clinical application in memory disorders.
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