Rovee-Collier C, Adler S A, Borza M A
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
Mem Cognit. 1994 Nov;22(6):644-56. doi: 10.3758/bf03209250.
How that which we remember is selectively distorted by new information was studied in 3-month-old infants who learned to move a particular crib mobile by operant foot kicking. Infants who were passively exposed to a novel mobile 1, 2, or 3 days later subsequently treated the novel mobile as if they had actually been trained with it. Also, after the longest exposure delay, they no longer recognized the original mobile. Likewise, when the novel mobile was exposed after the longest delay, it could prime the forgotten training memory in a reactivation paradigm, but the original mobile no longer could. These data reveal that what we remember about an event is selectively distorted by what we encounter later. Moreover, the later in the retention interval we encounter new postevent information, the greater is its impact on retention.
我们所记得的内容是如何被新信息选择性扭曲的，这一问题在3个月大的婴儿身上进行了研究，这些婴儿通过操作性踢腿学会移动特定的婴儿床活动装置。在1、2或3天后被动接触新活动装置的婴儿，随后对待新活动装置的方式就好像他们真的用它进行过训练一样。此外，在最长的接触延迟后，他们不再认出原来的活动装置。同样，当在最长延迟后接触新活动装置时，它可以在重新激活范式中激活被遗忘的训练记忆，但原来的活动装置则不再能做到。这些数据表明，我们对一个事件的记忆会被我们后来遇到的事情选择性地扭曲。此外，在保持间隔后期我们遇到新的事件后信息时，其对保持的影响就越大。
