Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2011 Dec;21(6):847-59. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2011.627263.
Recent research has demonstrated that "self-imagination" - a mnemonic strategy developed by Grilli and Glisky (2010) - enhances episodic memory in memory-impaired individuals with neurological damage more than traditional cognitive strategies, including semantic elaboration and visual imagery. The present study investigated the effect of self-imagination on prospective memory in individuals with neurologically based memory deficits. In two separate sessions, 12 patients with memory impairment took part in a computerised general knowledge test that required them to answer multiple choice questions (i.e., ongoing task) and press the "1" key when a target word appeared in a question (i.e., prospective memory task). Prior to the start of the general knowledge test in each session, participants attempted to encode the prospective memory task with one of two strategies: self-imagination or rote-rehearsal. The findings revealed a "self-imagination effect (SIE)" in prospective memory as self-imagining resulted in better prospective memory performance than rote-rehearsal. These results demonstrate that the mnemonic advantage of self-imagination extends to prospective memory in memory-impaired individuals with neurological damage and suggest that self-imagination has potential in cognitive rehabilitation.
最近的研究表明，“自我想象”——一种由 Grilli 和 Glisky（2010）开发的记忆策略——比传统的认知策略（包括语义细化和视觉意象）更能增强有神经损伤的记忆障碍个体的情景记忆。本研究调查了自我想象对有神经基础的记忆缺陷个体的前瞻性记忆的影响。在两个单独的会话中，12 名记忆障碍患者参加了一项计算机化的一般知识测试，要求他们回答多项选择题（即持续任务），并在问题中出现目标词时按下“1”键（即前瞻性记忆任务）。在每个会话的一般知识测试开始之前，参与者尝试使用两种策略之一来编码前瞻性记忆任务：自我想象或机械复述。研究结果发现前瞻性记忆中的“自我想象效应（SIE）”，因为自我想象比机械复述产生更好的前瞻性记忆表现。这些结果表明，自我想象的记忆优势扩展到有神经损伤的记忆障碍个体的前瞻性记忆中，并表明自我想象在认知康复中具有潜力。
