Cheng Zenghu, She Yugui
a Department of Psychology , Zhenjiang College , Zhenjiang , People's Republic of China.
b Department of Psychology , Jiangxi Vocational College of Mechanical & Electrical Technology , Nanchang , People's Republic of China.
Memory. 2018 Aug;26(7):913-921. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1455874. Epub 2018 Mar 24.
The present research aims to explore whether recalling and writing about autobiographical memory from different perspectives (first-person perspective vs. third-person perspective) could affect cognitive function. The participants first performed a working memory task to evaluate their working memory capacity as a baseline and then were instructed to recall (Study 1) or write about (Study 2) personal events (failures vs. successes) from the first-person perspective or the third-person perspective. Finally, they performed the working memory task again. The results suggested that autobiographical memory and perspective influence working memory interactively. When recalling a success, the participants who recalled from the third-person perspective performed better than those who recalled from the first-person perspective on the working memory capacity task; when recalling a failure, the opposite was true.
本研究旨在探讨从不同视角（第一人称视角与第三人称视角）回忆和书写自传体记忆是否会影响认知功能。参与者首先进行一项工作记忆任务，以评估他们的工作记忆容量作为基线，然后被指示从第一人称视角或第三人称视角回忆（研究1）或书写（研究2）个人事件（失败与成功）。最后，他们再次进行工作记忆任务。结果表明，自传体记忆和视角对工作记忆有交互影响。当回忆成功事件时，从第三人称视角回忆的参与者在工作记忆容量任务上的表现优于从第一人称视角回忆的参与者；当回忆失败事件时，情况则相反。
