Belief and recollection of autobiographical memories

Rubin, David C.; Schrauf, Robert W.; Greenberg, Daniel

doi:10.3758/bf03196443

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“…Measures of subjective vividness and ease of construction were introduced first in a regression model because previous studies have shown that autonoetic experience substantially depends on the subjective sensory-perceptual qualities of mental representations (D'Argembeau & Van der Linden, 2012;Rubin, Schrauf, & Greenberg, 2003). These two variables significantly contributed to autonoetic experience (likelihood ratio, LR = 69.21, df = 2, p < .001).…”

Section: Predicting Autonoetic Experience When Imagining Eventsmentioning

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The role of personal goals in autonoetic experience when imagining future events

Lehner

D’Argembeau

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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Although autonoetic experience-a sense of mental time travel-has been considered as the hallmark of episodic future thinking, what determines this subjective feeling is not yet fully understood. Here, we investigated the role of autobiographical knowledge by manipulating the relevance of imagined events for personal goals. Participants were asked to imagine three types of events (goal-related future events, experimenter-provided future events, and atemporal events) and to assess various characteristics of their mental representations. The results showed that the three types of events were represented with similar levels of detail and vividness. Importantly, however, goal-related future events were associated with a stronger autonoetic experience. Furthermore, autonoetic experience was significantly predicted by the importance of imagined events for personal goals. These findings suggest that the subjective feeling of pre-experiencing one's personal future in part depends on the extent to which imagined events can be placed in an autobiographical context.

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Section: Predicting Autonoetic Experience When Imagining Eventsmentioning

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The role of personal goals in autonoetic experience when imagining future events

Lehner

D’Argembeau

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…The recollection of an AM involves the retrieval of visual and spatial imagery (Brewer, 1995;Rubin et al, 2003), and AMs that come with a strong sense of reliving almost always involve vivid visual imagery . For example, a recollection of a birthday party might involve generating a visual image of the overall scene and populating it with the images of the partygoers.…”

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“…(As used here, "visual imagery" means pictorial or object imagery, not linguistic imagery such as the shape of letters or words.) Retrieval of AMs usually coincides with retrieval of a visual image (Brewer, 1995), and the intensity of visual imagery is well correlated with feelings of recollection or reliving (Rubin, Schrauf, & Greenberg, 2003). Therefore, an impairment of visual imagery might have a significant effect on AM.…”

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Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study

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Amnesia typically results from trauma to the medial temporal regions that coordinate activation among the disparate areas of cortex that represent the information that make up autobiographical memories. We proposed that amnesia should also result from damage to these regions, particularly regions that subserve long-term visual memory [Rubin, D. C., & Greenberg, D. L. (1998). Visual memory-deficit amnesia: A distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 95, 5413-5416]. We previously found 11 such cases in the literature, and all 11 had amnesia. We now present a detailed investigation of one of these patients. M.S. suffers from long-term visual memory loss along with some semantic deficits; he also manifests a severe retrograde amnesia and moderate anterograde amnesia. The presentation of his amnesia differs from that of the typical medial-temporal or lateral-temporal amnesic; we suggest that his visual deficits may be contributing to his autobiographical amnesia.

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“…These other kinds of beliefs play important roles in memorial and metamemorial processes, and persuasion and attitude change research may be applicable to these too. For instance, Rubin, Schrauf, and Greenberg (2003) include an item in their Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire labelled 'persuasion', which is designed to capture respondents' preparedness to accept that their memory is inaccurate if it were challenged. Belief in occurrence and belief in memory accuracy might sometimes be related; nonetheless here we focus on belief in occurrence, because there is now a considerable body of research devoted specifically to distinguishing this type of belief from recollection (e.g.…”

Section: From Memory To Beliefmentioning

confidence: 99%