van de Ven Vincent, Kochs Sarah, Smulders Fren, De Weerd Peter
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht 6200 MD, The Netherlands.
Learn Mem. 2017 Mar 15;24(4):158-161. doi: 10.1101/lm.044404.116. Print 2017 Apr.
The extent to which time is represented in memory remains underinvestigated. We designed a time paired associate task (TPAT) in which participants implicitly learned cue-time-target associations between cue-target pairs and specific cue-target intervals. During subsequent memory testing, participants showed increased accuracy of identifying matching cue-target pairs if the time interval during testing matched the implicitly learned interval. A control experiment showed that participants had no explicit knowledge about the cue-time associations. We suggest that "elapsed time" can act as a temporal mnemonic associate that can facilitate retrieval of events associated in memory.
时间在记忆中的呈现程度仍未得到充分研究。我们设计了一个时间配对联想任务（TPAT），在该任务中，参与者隐性地学习线索 - 时间 - 目标之间的关联，即线索 - 目标对与特定线索 - 目标间隔之间的关联。在随后的记忆测试中，如果测试期间的时间间隔与隐性学习的间隔相匹配，参与者识别匹配的线索 - 目标对的准确性会提高。一项对照实验表明，参与者对线 - 时关联没有明确的认识。我们认为，“经过的时间”可以作为一种时间记忆关联，有助于检索记忆中相关的事件。
