Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Memory. 2012 Jul;20(5):443-51. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.677450. Epub 2012 May 28.
The constructive episodic simulation hypothesis suggests that episodic memory supports the simulation of future events through extraction and recombination of stored information. The current study explicitly investigated the use of past episodic thought in the simulation of future scenarios. Participants simulated one of three possible scenarios, differing in plausibility and participants' prior experience of similar events. Participants recorded related memories and whether they were explicitly used during future event simulation. Memories were rated for source (self-experienced, other-experienced, or media). Findings suggest prior experience and event plausibility did not impact upon ease of future event simulation or the extent of memory usage during simulations. Differences emerged in the source of information used to assist future event simulation. These findings provide support for the hypothesis that episodic memories from a variety of sources are recombined when generating future simulations of novel events.
构建性情节模拟假说表明，情节记忆通过提取和重组存储的信息来支持对未来事件的模拟。本研究明确调查了过去情节思维在未来场景模拟中的使用。参与者模拟了三种可能情景中的一种，这些情景在可能性和参与者类似事件的先前经验方面存在差异。参与者记录了相关记忆，并记录了它们是否在未来事件模拟中被明确使用。记忆的来源（自我经历、他人经历或媒体）进行了评分。研究结果表明，先前经验和事件的可能性并不影响未来事件模拟的容易程度，也不影响模拟过程中记忆的使用程度。在用于辅助未来事件模拟的信息来源方面出现了差异。这些发现为以下假设提供了支持，即当生成对新事件的未来模拟时，会对来自各种来源的情节记忆进行重组。
