title: [Consistent Declarative Memory with Depressive Symptomatology].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Some studies have suggested that potentiated remembrance of negative events on people with depressive disorders seems to be an important factor in the etiology, course and maintenance of depression.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Evaluate the emotional memory in people with and without depressive symptomatology by means of an audio-visual test.
  
  
  METHODS
  73 university students were evaluated, male and female, between 18 and 40 years old, distributed in two groups: with depressive symptomatology (32) and without depressive symptomatology (40), using the Scale from the Center of Epidemiologic Studies for Depression (CES-D, English Abbreviation) and a cutting point of 20.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were not meaningful differences between free and voluntary recalls, with and without depressive symptomatology, in spite of the fact that both groups had granted a higher emotional value to the audio-visual test and that they had associated it with emotional sadness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  People with depressive symptomatology did not exhibit the effect of mnemonic potentiation generally associated to the content of the emotional version of the test; therefore, the hypothesis of emotional consistency was not validated.
authors.affiliation: Psicóloga, Universidade Estadual Paulista São Paulo, Brasil. Magíster y PhD en Psicobiología de la Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. Docente titular de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Seccional Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Directora del Laboratorio de Neurociencias y Comportamiento, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Seccional Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Electronic address: silvia.botelho@upb.edu.co.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Botelho de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Psicólogos, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Grupo Neurociencias y Comportamiento (NYC), Universidad Industrial de Santander y Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
authors.forename: Ruth Natalia Suárez
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Flórez
authors.affiliation: Psicólogos, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Grupo Neurociencias y Comportamiento (NYC), Universidad Industrial de Santander y Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
authors.forename: Diego Andrés Vásquez
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Caballero
keywords: CES-D; Emotional memory; Memoria emocional; Prueba auditivo-visual; audio-visual test; congruencia emocional; depressive symptomatology; mood congruency; sintomatología depresiva