Huffman C M, Weaver K A
Emporia State University, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1996 Jun;82(3 Pt 1):1027-34. doi: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3.1027.
If high visual imagery is a component of successful autobiographical recall for personal episodes, then those participants who have high imagery should have greater autobiographical recall for personal episodes. This hypothesis was tested by giving 30 selected participants, 15 who had high and 15 low visual imagery, 90 sec. to recall personal episodic information from three time periods in their lives. Also assessed were the effects of visual imagery on autobiographical recall for personal semantic and nonpersonal semantic information (vegetables and adjectives). Level of visual imagery was significantly related only for the group with lower visual imagery, who recalled more adjectives. The implications of the results for the semantic and episodic memory distinction within autobiographical memory were discussed.
如果高视觉意象是成功回忆个人经历性自传记忆的一个组成部分，那么那些具有高意象能力的参与者应该能更好地回忆个人经历。通过让30名被选中的参与者（15名具有高视觉意象能力和15名具有低视觉意象能力）在90秒内回忆他们生活中三个时间段的个人经历性信息来检验这一假设。同时还评估了视觉意象对个人语义信息和非个人语义信息（蔬菜和形容词）的自传记忆的影响。视觉意象水平仅与低视觉意象组显著相关，该组回忆出了更多形容词。讨论了这些结果对自传记忆中语义记忆和情景记忆区分的意义。
