Knez Igor, Ljunglöf Louise, Arshamian Artin, Willander Johan
Department of Social Work and Psychology, University of Gävle, Sweden.
Department of Social Work and Psychology, University of Gävle, Sweden.
Conscious Cogn. 2017 Jul;52:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.008. Epub 2017 Apr 24.
Given that autobiographical memory provides a cognitive foundation for the self, we investigated the relative importance of visual, auditory and olfactory autobiographical memories for the self. Thirty subjects, with a mean age of 35.4years, participated in a study involving a three×three within-subject design containing nine different types of autobiographical memory cues: pictures, sounds and odors presented with neutral, positive and negative valences. It was shown that visual compared to auditory and olfactory autobiographical memories involved higher cognitive and emotional constituents for the self. Furthermore, there was a trend showing positive autobiographical memories to increase their proportion to both cognitive and emotional components of the self, from olfactory to auditory to visually cued autobiographical memories; but, yielding a reverse trend for negative autobiographical memories. Finally, and independently of modality, positive affective states were shown to be more involved in autobiographical memory than negative ones.
鉴于自传体记忆为自我提供了认知基础，我们研究了视觉、听觉和嗅觉自传体记忆对自我的相对重要性。30名平均年龄为35.4岁的受试者参与了一项研究，该研究采用三因素重复测量设计，包含九种不同类型的自传体记忆线索：呈现出中性、积极和消极效价的图片、声音和气味。结果表明，与听觉和嗅觉自传体记忆相比，视觉自传体记忆涉及更高的自我认知和情感成分。此外，有一个趋势表明，从嗅觉到听觉再到视觉线索的自传体记忆，积极自传体记忆在自我认知和情感成分中的比例会增加；但消极自传体记忆则呈现相反的趋势。最后，且与模态无关，积极情感状态比消极情感状态更多地参与到自传体记忆中。
