Pathman Thanujeni, Ghetti Simona
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America.
Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2015 May 20;10(5):e0125648. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125648. eCollection 2015.
The present research examined whether eye movements during retrieval capture the relation between an event and its temporal attributes. In two experiments (N=76), we found converging evidence that eye movements reflected the veridicality of memory for temporal order seconds before overt memory judgments, suggesting that these movements captured indirect access to temporal information. These eye movements did not entirely depend on the amount of contextual cueing available (Experiment 1) and reflected the unique ordinal position of an event in a sequence (Experiment 2). Based on our results, we conclude that eye movements reflected the absolute temporal order of past events.
本研究考察了检索过程中的眼动是否捕捉到事件与其时间属性之间的关系。在两项实验（N = 76）中，我们发现了一致的证据，即眼动在明显的记忆判断前几秒反映了对时间顺序记忆的真实性，这表明这些眼动捕捉到了对时间信息的间接获取。这些眼动并不完全依赖于可用的情境线索量（实验1），并且反映了序列中事件的独特顺序位置（实验2）。基于我们的结果，我们得出结论，眼动反映了过去事件的绝对时间顺序。
