Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.
Baylor Law School, Baylor University, Waco, USA.
Cogn Sci. 2023 Apr;47(4):e13271. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13271.
Written memoranda of conversations, or memcons, provide a near-contemporaneous record of what was said in conversation, and offer important insights into the activities of high-profile individuals. We assess the impact of writing a memcon on memory for conversation. Pairs of participants engaged in conversation and were asked to recall the contents of that conversation 1 week later. One participant in each pair memorialized the content of the interaction in a memcon shortly after the conversation. Participants who generated memcons recalled more details of the conversations than participants who did not, but the content of recall was equally and largely accurate for both participants. Remarkably, only 4.7% of the details of the conversation were recalled by both of the partners after a week delay. Contemporaneous note-taking appears to enhance memory for conversation by increasing the amount of information remembered but not the accuracy of that information. These findings have implications for evaluating the testimony of participants on conversations with major political or legal ramifications.
书面会议备忘录提供了对话内容的近乎同时期记录，并为了解知名人士的活动提供了重要见解。我们评估了写会议备忘录对对话记忆的影响。每对参与者进行对话，并要求他们在一周后回忆对话的内容。每对参与者中的一名参与者在对话后不久用会议备忘录记录互动内容。写会议备忘录的参与者比不写的参与者回忆出更多对话细节，但对两个参与者来说，回忆的内容都是同样且大部分准确的。值得注意的是，在一周的延迟后，只有 4.7%的对话细节被两个伙伴共同回忆起来。同期记笔记似乎通过增加记忆的信息量而不是信息的准确性来增强对对话的记忆。这些发现对评估具有重大政治或法律影响的参与者对对话的证词有影响。
