Wharton C M, Holyoak K J, Lange T E
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Mem Cognit. 1996 Sep;24(5):629-43. doi: 10.3758/bf03201088.
Remote analogical reminding is hypothesized to occur when one episode is cued by another sharing similar themes but not similar object, character, or event descriptions. We report three experiments exploring this view. Subjects' remindings in Experiment 1 showed sensitivity to remote analogical similarity even though targets were encoded only briefly in an incidental learning paradigm. Experiment 2 subjects showed reliable remindings of remote analogs with study-test delays of up to 1 week. Experiment 3 demonstrated that remote analogical reminding effects are not an artifact of subjects' editing nonanalogical remindings. All experiments supported the hypothesis that human memory is sensitive to remote analogical similarity. We discuss the implications of these findings for memory models. Future progress requires the development of formal models that quantify factors relevant to reminding performance, such as reminding interference, transfer-appropriate processing, and domain expertise.
远程类比提醒被假定为当一个情节由另一个具有相似主题但不具有相似对象、角色或事件描述的情节所提示时发生。我们报告了三项探索这一观点的实验。实验1中，尽管目标是在偶然学习范式中仅被短暂编码，但受试者的提醒表现出对远程类比相似性的敏感性。实验2的受试者在长达1周的学习 - 测试延迟后，对远程类比表现出可靠的提醒。实验3表明，远程类比提醒效应不是受试者编辑非类比提醒的人为结果。所有实验都支持了人类记忆对远程类比相似性敏感这一假设。我们讨论了这些发现对记忆模型的影响。未来的进展需要开发形式模型，以量化与提醒表现相关的因素，如提醒干扰、迁移适当加工和领域专业知识。
