Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137, USA.
Memory. 2012;20(3):224-35. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.654796. Epub 2012 Feb 23.
Cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evidence suggests that remembering the past and imagining the future rely on overlapping processes in episodic memory. The three experiments reported here examine the consequences of remembering the past and imagining the future on the accessibility of other information in memory. Participants first studied events associated with a specific context and then either (a) retrieved past autobiographical events associated with that same context or (b) imagined future autobiographical events associated with that same context. Replicating and extending evidence of retrieval-induced forgetting, remembering autobiographical events from the past caused participants to forget the related studied events. However, imagining future autobiographical events failed to cause participants to forget the related studied events. These results suggest an important difference in the memorial consequences of remembering and imagining.
认知神经心理学和神经影像学的证据表明，回忆过去和想象未来依赖于情景记忆中的重叠过程。本文报告的三个实验研究了回忆过去和想象未来对记忆中其他信息可及性的影响。参与者首先学习与特定情境相关的事件，然后（a）回忆与同一情境相关的过去自传体事件，或（b）想象与同一情境相关的未来自传体事件。这些结果复制并扩展了提取诱导遗忘的证据，即回忆过去的自传体事件会导致参与者忘记相关的学习事件。然而，想象未来的自传体事件并没有导致参与者忘记相关的学习事件。这些结果表明，回忆和想象的记忆后果存在重要差异。
