D'Argembeau Arnaud, Jeunehomme Olivier, Stawarczyk David
University of Liège, Belgium.
Memory. 2022 Jan;30(1):43-48. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2021.1896737. Epub 2021 Mar 9.
Remembering everyday events typically takes less time than the actual duration of the retrieved episodes, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the temporal compression of events in episodic memory. Here, we review recent studies that have shed light on how this compression mechanism operates. The evidence suggests that the continuous flow of experience is not represented as such in episodic memory. Instead, the unfolding of events is recalled as a succession of moments or slices of past experience that includes temporal discontinuities-portions of past experience are omitted when remembering. Consequently, the rate of event compression is not constant but depends on the density of recalled segments of past experience.
记住日常事件通常比所回忆情节的实际持续时间花费的时间更少，这一现象被称为情景记忆中事件的时间压缩。在此，我们回顾了最近揭示这种压缩机制如何运作的研究。证据表明，经验的连续流动在情景记忆中并非如此呈现。相反，事件的展开被回忆为过去经验的一系列时刻或片段，其中包括时间上的间断——记忆时会省略过去经验的某些部分。因此，事件压缩率并非恒定不变，而是取决于所回忆的过去经验片段的密度。
