Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Conscious Cogn. 2013 Sep;22(3):1074-81. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.07.008. Epub 2013 Aug 15.
The current study examined the effects of cuing autobiographical memory retrieval in 12 older participants with dementia through immersion into a historically authentic environment that recreated the material and cultural context of the participants' youth. Participants conversed in either an everyday setting (control condition) or a museum setting furnished in early twentieth century style (experimental condition) while being presented with condition matched cues. Conversations were coded for memory content based on an adapted version of Levine, Svoboda, Hay, Winocur, and Moscovitch (2002) coding scheme. More autobiographical memories were recalled in the museum setting, and these memories were more elaborated, more spontaneous and included especially more internal (episodic) details compared to memories in the control condition. The findings have theoretical and practical implications by showing that the memories retrieved in the museum setting were both quantitatively and qualitatively different from memories retrieved during a control condition.
本研究通过沉浸式体验再现参与者青年时期物质和文化背景的历史真实环境，考察了提示自传体记忆检索对 12 名痴呆症老年参与者的影响。参与者在日常环境（对照条件）或陈设为 20 世纪早期风格的博物馆环境（实验条件）中进行对话，同时呈现条件匹配的提示。根据 Levine、Svoboda、Hay、Winocur 和 Moscovitch（2002）编码方案的改编版本，对对话进行记忆内容编码。在博物馆环境中回忆起更多的自传体记忆，这些记忆更加详细、更加自然，并且特别包含更多内部（情节）细节，与对照条件下的记忆相比。这些发现具有理论和实践意义，表明在博物馆环境中检索到的记忆在数量和质量上都与对照条件下检索到的记忆不同。
