Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Pardis New City, 4th Phase, Safir Omid Blvd, Tehran, Iran.
School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Psychol Res. 2020 Jun;84(4):1084-1111. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-1098-0. Epub 2018 Sep 22.
By a systematic analysis of the current literature, we compare two states of sleep and meditation in terms of their role in the formation or suppression of Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false memory. We aim to suggest that the occurrence of false memory under these two states is a result of reinforcing some abilities and changes in cognitive systems which can ultimately improve some aspects of cognitive functions. In our analogy, we propose that: (1) both sleep and meditation may improve source monitoring ability whose failure is one of the most important mechanisms in producing false memories, and (2) despite improvement in source monitoring ability, adaptive cognitive processes, as mechanisms which are common in sleep and meditation, can still produce false memories. In conclusion, we propose that in spite of their contribution to false memory through adaptive processes, the beneficial role of sleep and meditation in cognition may be more prominent than their harmful role.
通过对当前文献的系统分析，我们比较了睡眠和冥想这两种状态在形成或抑制德西-罗迪格-麦克德莫特（DRM）虚假记忆中的作用。我们的目的是提出，在这两种状态下发生虚假记忆是由于强化了一些认知系统的能力和变化，这些能力和变化最终可以改善认知功能的某些方面。在我们的类比中，我们提出：（1）睡眠和冥想都可能改善来源监测能力，而来源监测能力的失败是产生虚假记忆的最重要机制之一；（2）尽管来源监测能力得到了提高，但作为睡眠和冥想中常见的适应认知过程的机制，仍然可能产生虚假记忆。总之，我们提出，尽管睡眠和冥想通过适应过程对虚假记忆有贡献，但它们对认知的有益作用可能比其有害作用更为突出。
