Applied Memory Research Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.
Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 16;46:e356. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002035.
Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu are phenomena that occur spontaneously in daily life. IAMs are recollections of the personal past, whereas déjà vu is defined as an experience in which the person feels familiarity at the same time as knowing that the familiarity is false. We present and discuss the idea that both IAMs and déjà vu can be explained as natural phenomena resulting from memory processing and, importantly, are both based on the same memory retrieval processes. Briefly, we hypothesise that both can be described as "involuntary" or spontaneous cognitions, where IAMs deliver content and déjà vu delivers only the feeling of retrieval. We map out the similarities and differences between the two, making a theoretical and neuroscientific account for their integration into models of memory retrieval and how the autobiographical memory literature can explain these quirks of daily life and unusual but meaningful phenomena. We explain the emergence of the déjà vu phenomenon by relating it to well-known mechanisms of autobiographical memory retrieval, concluding that IAMs and déjà vu lie on a continuum.
不由自主的自传体记忆 (IAMs) 和即视现象是日常生活中自发出现的现象。IAMs 是对个人过去的回忆，而即视现象则被定义为一种人同时感到熟悉但又知道这种熟悉是错误的体验。我们提出并讨论了这样一种观点，即 IAMs 和即视现象都可以被解释为记忆处理的自然现象，重要的是，它们都基于相同的记忆检索过程。简而言之，我们假设两者都可以被描述为“不由自主”或自发的认知，其中 IAMs 提供内容，而即视现象仅提供检索的感觉。我们比较了两者之间的异同，为它们在记忆检索模型中的整合以及自传体记忆文献如何解释这些日常生活中的怪癖和不寻常但有意义的现象提供了理论和神经科学的解释。我们通过将即视现象与众所周知的自传体记忆检索机制联系起来，解释了即视现象的出现，得出结论即 IAMs 和即视现象处于一个连续体上。
