Psychology Department, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 61920, USA.
Mem Cognit. 2024 Aug;52(6):1357-1367. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01547-2. Epub 2024 Mar 13.
Recent research has shown that the activation of semantic memories leads to the activation of autobiographical memories. Known as semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming, this form of priming has been demonstrated to prime involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories with a wide variety of different primes (i.e., various verbal and non-verbal stimuli). However, only verbal cues have been used in the memory measures, leaving open the question of how non-verbal cues might function. Our goal in the current study was to show that non-verbal cues are also involved in semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming. Participants were primed with words, and then they were treated to an involuntary autobiographical memory task (the vigilance task) where they received either word cues or pictorial cues. The results showed that both the word cues and the pictorial cues had captured primed involuntary memories on the vigilance task relative to controls. The results support the idea that semantic-to-autobiographical memory primes occur with both verbal and non-verbal cues, potentially indicating substantial cue diversity. The results also further support the idea that semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming may play an important role in the production of involuntary autobiographical memories in everyday life.
最近的研究表明，语义记忆的激活会导致自传体记忆的激活。这种被称为语义到自传记忆启动的形式，已经被证明可以用各种不同的启动刺激（即各种言语和非言语刺激）来启动无意识和有意识的自传体记忆。然而，在记忆测量中只使用了言语线索，这就留下了一个问题，即非言语线索可能是如何起作用的。我们在当前研究中的目标是表明非言语线索也参与了语义到自传记忆的启动。参与者接受了单词的启动，然后他们接受了无意识的自传体记忆任务（警戒任务），在这个任务中，他们接受了单词线索或图片线索。结果表明，相对于对照组，单词线索和图片线索都在警戒任务中捕获了启动的无意识记忆。结果支持了这样一种观点，即语义到自传记忆的启动既可以通过言语线索，也可以通过非言语线索发生，这可能表明线索具有很大的多样性。结果还进一步支持了这样一种观点，即语义到自传记忆的启动可能在日常生活中无意识自传体记忆的产生中起着重要作用。
