Differential retrieval of past and future autobiographical experiences.

Migueles, Malen; García-Bajos, Elvira

doi:10.1037/cep0000050

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“…The lack of an inhibitory effect seen here is in line with some previous studies (Storm and Jobe, 2012; García-Bajos and Migueles, 2016, for positive events only), but not others (Ditta and Storm, 2016; Migueles and García-Bajos, 2015; 2016, for negative events only). The current paradigm is quite different from those used previously and thus, there may be several reasons for the partial discrepancy.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…In another two studies, Migueles and García-Bajos tested for RIF of past and future autobiographical experiences that participants generated in response to cues (e.g., “The best present I’ve ever been given/I could ever get…”). They found evidence for RIF for both past and future events in one study (Migueles & García-Bajos, 2015), but only for negative, not positive, past and future events in the other (García-Bajos & Migueles, 2016). …”

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Priming, not inhibition, of related concepts during future imagining

Campbell

Benoit

Schacter

2017

Memory

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Remembering the past and imagining the future both involve the retrieval of details stored in episodic memory and rely on the same core network of brain regions. Given these parallels, one might expect similar component processes to be involved in remembering and imagining. While a strong case can be made for the role of inhibition in memory retrieval, few studies have examined whether inhibition is also necessary for future imagining and results to-date have been mixed. In the current study, we test whether related concepts are inhibited during future imagining using a modified priming approach. Participants first generated a list of familiar places and for each place, the people they most strongly associate with it. A week later, participants imagined future events involving recombinations of people and places, immediately followed by a speeded response task in which participants made familiarity decisions about people’s names. Across two experiments, our results suggest that related concepts are not inhibited during future imagining, but rather are automatically primed. These results fit with recent work showing that autobiographically significant concepts (e.g., friends’ names) are more episodic than semantic in nature, automatically activating related details in memory and potentially fueling the flexible simulation of future events.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Priming, not inhibition, of related concepts during future imagining

Campbell

Benoit

Schacter

2017

Memory

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“…Half of the young participants received young model events, whereas the other half received old model events, the same being true for older participants. Whether the model came from young or old adults, retrieval cues (a procedure based on Migueles and García-Bajos, 2015 and García-Bajos and Migueles, 2017 ) were selected to help participants produce their own future events or experiences, that could be positive (e.g., Travel to...) and negative (e.g., Fear of...).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Age-Based Positivity Effects in Imagining and Recalling Future Positive and Negative Autobiographical Events

2017

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Thoughts about the future reflect personal goals, and projections into the future enrich our emotional life. Researchers have taken an interest in determining whether the tendency to remember more positive than negative emotional events observed when recalling past events also appears when remembering imagined future events. The objective of this study was to examine the age-based positivity effect of recall for future positive and negative autobiographical events in young and older adults. Representative future events were first established to develop the cues used to prompt personal future events. In the production task, the participants were presented with eight positive and eight negative random future events of young or older adults as a model and the corresponding cues to generate their own positive and negative future autobiographical events. In the recall task, the participants recovered as many experiences as they could of the model and the positive and negative events produced by themselves. The participants correctly recalled more positive than negative events and committed more errors for negative than positive events, showing a clear tendency in both young and older adults to recall future imagined events as positive. Regarding age, the young adults recalled more events than the older participants whilst the older participants in particular showed better recall of their own imagined future events than the model’s events, and committed more errors when recalling the model’s events than their own imagined events. Regarding the positivity effect in incorrect recall, more than half of the errors were valence changes, most of these being from negative to positive events, and these valence changes were more pronounced in the older than in the younger adults. In general, there were fewer differences between young and older adults in the recall of positive events in comparison with negative events. Our findings suggest that people are well disposed toward recalling positive imagined future events and preserve a positive emotional state, suppressing negative memories.

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“…Based on the experiences obtained, 12 frequent positive and 12 negative events were selected, generated by more than 20% of the participants. These typical and frequent experiences became cues (a procedure based on Migueles & García‐Bajos, 2015; García‐Bajos & Migueles, 2017; García‐Bajos & Migueles, 2017) to produce their own future events or experiences that could be either positive (e.g., Traveling to…) or negative (e.g., Fear of…). For both positive and negative cues their Event Type was taken into account, with half of them being more directed toward personal issues (e.g., Having a good time/having fun with), and the other half toward collective or social issues (e.g., The situation becoming complicated).…”

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Mental journey to the future and memory for future thoughts during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown

Migueles Seco,

Aizpurua Sanz

2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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This study analyzes the production and recall of future thoughts during the COVID‐19 lockdown. Participants were free to produce future thoughts (Experiment 1) or received cues to promote production (Experiment 2), and then were asked to recall as many of the future thoughts produced as possible. The Valence (positive vs. negative) and the Event Type (personal vs. collective) thoughts were considered. In production and recall, there were no global differences between the positive and negative thoughts in Experiment 1, whereas in Experiment 2 the cues led to more positive than negative ones. More importantly, a Valence × Event Type interaction was observed in both experiments for production and recall data, indicating a positivity bias for personal and a negativity bias for collective future thinking. These findings contribute to a better understanding of mental time travel in situations as complex as the COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Differential retrieval of past and future autobiographical experiences.

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Priming, not inhibition, of related concepts during future imagining

Priming, not inhibition, of related concepts during future imagining

Age-Based Positivity Effects in Imagining and Recalling Future Positive and Negative Autobiographical Events

Mental journey to the future and memory for future thoughts during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown

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