Ditta Annie S, Storm Benjamin C
a Department of Psychology , University of California , Santa Cruz , CA , USA.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2016;69(2):339-50. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1026362. Epub 2015 Apr 15.
People are able to imagine events in the future that have not yet happened, an ability referred to as episodic future thinking. There is now compelling evidence that episodic future thinking is accomplished via processes similar to those that underlie episodic retrieval. Drawing upon work on retrieval-induced forgetting, which has shown that retrieving some items in memory can cause the forgetting of other items in memory, we show that engaging in episodic future thinking can cause related autobiographical memories (Experiments 1-3) and episodic event descriptions (Experiments 3-4) to become less recallable in the future than they would have been otherwise. This finding suggests that episodic future thinking can serve as a memory modifier by changing the extent to which memories from our past can be subsequently retrieved.
人们能够想象尚未发生的未来事件，这种能力被称为情景式未来思维。现在有令人信服的证据表明，情景式未来思维是通过与情景式检索相似的过程来实现的。基于检索诱发遗忘的研究工作，该研究表明检索记忆中的某些项目会导致记忆中的其他项目被遗忘，我们发现进行情景式未来思维会使相关的自传体记忆（实验1 - 3）和情景式事件描述（实验3 - 4）在未来比原本的情况更难被回忆起来。这一发现表明，情景式未来思维可以通过改变我们过去记忆随后被检索的程度来充当记忆调节剂。
