Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, United States.
Conscious Cogn. 2011 Sep;20(3):901-7. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.02.015. Epub 2011 May 23.
The role of imagery in encoding event-based prospective memories has yet to be fully clarified. Herein, it is argued that imagery augments a cue-to-context association that supports event-based prospective memory performance. By this account, imagery encoding not only improves prospective memory performance but also reduces interference to intention-related information that occurs outside of context. In the current study, when lure words occurred outside of the appropriate responding context, the use of imagery encoding strategies resulted in less interference when compared with a standard event-based intention condition. This difference was eliminated when participants were not given a specific context to associate their intention (i.e., lures occurred within the appropriate responding context). These results support a cue-to-context association account of how imagery operates in certain event-based prospective memory tasks.
意象在基于事件的前瞻性记忆编码中的作用尚未得到充分阐明。在此，有人认为意象增强了支持基于事件的前瞻性记忆表现的提示-背景关联。根据这一说法，意象编码不仅可以提高前瞻性记忆的表现，还可以减少与意图相关的信息在背景之外发生的干扰。在当前的研究中，当诱饵词出现在适当的反应背景之外时，与标准的基于事件的意图条件相比，使用意象编码策略会导致较少的干扰。当参与者没有被给予特定的背景来关联他们的意图（即，诱饵出现在适当的反应背景内）时，这种差异就消除了。这些结果支持了意象在某些基于事件的前瞻性记忆任务中的提示-背景关联的解释。
