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Violence without a face: the role of episodic buffer in remembering sexual offenders among fourteen detained and raped women during the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

The extreme traumatic events such as multiple rape, forceful detention and captivity in war by the offenders that were previously unknown to them might not have been stored in visual memory of the victim (non-pictorial experience). Recalling of these traumatic events is devoid of any accompanying perceptual (quasi-perceptual conscious experience) and the emotional determinants of the event. We employed the method of analysis of the restored memories about multiple rapes, forceful detention, captivity and isolation of the war victims in respect to: spatial, temporal, visual and auditory components of the event and the detection of emotional responses associated with these perceptive qualities. We studied differences in narratives and remembrance between those women who were raped by known perpetrator vs. those who were raped by unknown perpetrator.

Episodic Memory ; Episodic Buffer ; EB ; Traumatic Memory ; Trauma ; War ; Psychology ; Psychiatry ; PTSD

The first two authors equally contributed to the work.