Wyble Brad, Chen Hui
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2017 Jun;43(6):997-1000. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000333.
Attribute amnesia is a phenomenon in which information about a stimulus that was just recently used to perform a task is poorly remembered in a surprise test (Chen & Wyble, 2015a). In a recent article by Jiang, Shupe, Swallow, and Tan (2016), this effect was replicated but with an additional priming measure that revealed some carryover memory for the information that participants had trouble explicitly reporting on the surprise trial. Their work invites a discussion of the underlying cause of attribute amnesia by suggesting that the surprise question caused an overwriting of working memory contents. Although we agree that overwriting may be partially responsible for the inability to report, data from other experiments have suggested that a failure to consolidate a robust memory of the attended information is a major cause of the amnesia. We discuss experimental evidence supporting the theory that memory consolidation of attended information is an optional process that can be selectively evoked by task requirements. (PsycINFO Database Record
属性遗忘是一种现象，即在一项突击测试中，人们对刚刚用于执行任务的刺激信息记忆不佳（Chen & Wyble，2015a）。在Jiang、Shupe、Swallow和Tan（2016）最近的一篇文章中，这一效应得到了重复验证，但增加了一项启动测量，结果显示，对于参与者在突击试验中难以明确报告的信息，存在一些残留记忆。他们的研究引发了关于属性遗忘潜在原因的讨论，认为突击问题导致了工作记忆内容的覆盖。虽然我们同意覆盖可能部分导致了无法报告，但其他实验的数据表明，未能巩固对所关注信息的稳固记忆是遗忘的主要原因。我们讨论了支持以下理论的实验证据：对所关注信息的记忆巩固是一个可选择的过程，可由任务要求选择性地引发。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
