Psychology Department, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 61920, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2019 Feb;47(2):299-312. doi: 10.3758/s13421-018-0866-9.
This study investigated the idea that semantic memory activation causes the activation of associated autobiographical memories (e.g., reading the word summer activates knowledge representations in semantic memory, as well as associated personal memories about summer in autobiographical memory). We tested this semantic-autobiographical memory priming hypothesis in three experiments. In Experiment 1, participants were primed with concepts (e.g., summer) on a familiarity task and were then given a word-cue voluntary autobiographical memory task. In support of the hypothesis, the results showed that primed participants had more autobiographical memories overlapping with the primed concepts than control participants. In Experiment 2, participants were similarly primed, but in this case they were given a measure of involuntary autobiographical memory (i.e., Schlagman and Kvavilashvili's (Memory & Cognition, 36, 920-932, 2008) vigilance task). The results of this experiment also supported the semantic-autobiographical memory-priming hypothesis. Experiment 3 ruled out an alternative possibility (i.e., that autobiographical memory processing had occurred in the word familiarity task) by showing that semantic-autobiographical priming had resulted from a priming task (lexical decision) where autobiographical memory processing was unlikely. The implications of these findings are discussed.
本研究探讨了语义记忆激活会引发相关自传体记忆激活的观点（例如，阅读单词“summer”会激活语义记忆中的知识表征，以及自传体记忆中与“summer”相关的个人记忆）。我们在三个实验中检验了这个语义-自传体记忆启动假设。在实验 1 中，参与者在熟悉度任务中被启动概念（例如，“summer”），然后进行单词提示自由回忆自传体记忆任务。该假设得到了支持，结果表明，被启动的参与者比对照组参与者有更多与启动概念重叠的自传体记忆。在实验 2 中，参与者也受到了类似的启动，但在这种情况下，他们接受了一种无意识自传体记忆的测量（即，Schlagman 和 Kvavilashvili 的（记忆与认知，36，920-932，2008）警觉任务）。这个实验的结果也支持了语义-自传体记忆启动假设。实验 3 通过表明语义-自传体记忆启动是由一个不太可能进行自传体记忆处理的启动任务（词汇决策）产生的，排除了另一种可能性（即，自传体记忆处理发生在单词熟悉度任务中）。讨论了这些发现的含义。
