Modifying the Frequency and Characteristics of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

Vannucci, Manila; Batool, Iram; Pelagatti, Claudia; Mazzoni, Giuliana

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“…Similar mind states have been identified as a trigger for other forms of spontaneous cognitions such as involuntary autobiographical memories, involuntary semantic memories, and mind wandering (Berntsen, Staugaard, & Sorensen, 2013;Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010, Kvavilashvili & Mandler, 2004Mazzoni, Vannucci, & Batool, 2014;McKiernan, D'Angelo, Kaufman, & Binder, 2006;Shlagman & Kvavilashvili, 2008;Vannucci, Batool, Pelagatti & Mazzoni, 2014;Vannucci, Pelagatti, Hanczakowski, Mazzoni, & Rossi Paccani, 2015). In controlled lab studies, undemanding low attention tasks (e.g.…”

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A Novel Indirect Method for Capturing Involuntary Musical Imagery under Varying Cognitive Load

Floridou

Williamson

2017

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Involuntary musical imagery (INMI), i.e the internal experience of a repetitive musical fragment, is one of the most ubiquitous forms of spontaneous cognition. Findings regarding the relationship between INMI and cognitive load are conflicting. In the present study, 200 participants watched and evaluated two non-dialogue, music-only film trailers. Subsequently, they either closed their eyes for 5 min (baseline), or engaged in one of three dot tasks of varying challenge and attentional demand (low, medium, and high cognitive load). Finally, they completed a novel “Mind Activity Questionnaire”, which allows for indirect INMI sampling rather than direct questioning. The same questionnaire was completed 24 hours later. Overall, a significant negative linear trend was found. At baseline, 65% of people reported experiencing INMI. This rate decreased to 32.5% in the low load condition with further reductions observed in the medium and high conditions, which did not differ significantly from each other. INMI frequency and duration followed the same pattern as the induction rates. In the 24-hour follow-up, 21% of participants reported INMI experiences. This study supports the hypothesis that INMI occurrence, frequency, and duration relate to spare cognitive capacity and demonstrates an ecologically valid laboratory paradigm for covertly inducing and documenting INMI experiences.

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A Novel Indirect Method for Capturing Involuntary Musical Imagery under Varying Cognitive Load

Floridou

Williamson

2017

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…To assess the frequency of IAMs, both self-caught (Schlagman & Kvavilashvili, 2008) or probe-caught (Vannucci, Batool, Pelagatti, & Mazzoni, 2014) procedures have been used in the studies. This paradigm elicits a fair amount of IAMs, the majority of which (85% in the original study) are reported as being triggered by the word-cues on the screen.…”

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“…Participants completed a modified version of the computer-based vigilance task developed by Schlagman and Kvavilashvili (2008) and already used in previous studies (Barzykowski & Niedzẃieńska, 2016;Vannucci et al, 2014;Vannucci, Pelagatti, Hanczakowski, Mazzoni, & Rossi Paccani, 2015). The task consisted of 600 trials, presented in a fixed order, each remaining on the screen for 1.5 sec.…”

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Manipulating cues in mind wandering: Verbal cues affect the frequency and the temporal focus of mind wandering

Vannucci

Pelagatti

Marchetti³

2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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Our understanding of mind wandering (MW) has dramatically increased over the past decade. A key challenge still facing research is the identification of the processes and events that directly cause and control its occurrence. In the present study we sought to shed light on this question, by investigating the effects of verbal cues on the frequency and temporal focus of MW. To this aim, we experimentally manipulated the presence of irrelevant verbal cues during a vigilance task, in two independent groups (Verbal-cues group vs. No-cues group).We found that compared to the No-cues group, the Verbal-cues group reported a higher amount of MW, mostly triggered by the irrelevant cue-words, and a higher proportion of past-oriented MW compared to the other temporal orientations. These results demonstrate that task-irrelevant verbal stimulation increases the frequency of MW and steers its temporal orientation toward the past. Implications for the research on MW are discussed.

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“…Vannucci, Batool, Pelagatti, & Mazzoni, 2014, for an examination of this issue in involuntary memories). The potential for reactivity in this aspect of the present design means that future experiments should attempt to replicate these initial findings using a condition in which no mention is made of involuntary MTT prior to the vigilance task.…”

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Inducing involuntary and voluntary mental time travel using a laboratory paradigm

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Although involuntary past and future mental time travel (MTT) has been examined outside the laboratory in diary studies, MTT has primarily been studied in the context of laboratory studies using voluntary construction tasks. In this study, we adapted and extended a paradigm previously used to elicit involuntary and voluntary memories (Schlagman & Kvavilashvili in Memory & Cognition, 36, 920-932, 2008). Our aim was -for the first time -to examine involuntary and voluntary future MTT under controlled laboratory conditions. The involuntary task involved a monotonous task that included potential cues for involuntary MTT. Temporal direction was manipulated between participants whereas retrieval mode was manipulated within participants. We replicated robust past-future differences, such as the future positivity bias. Additionally, we replicated key voluntary-involuntary differences: Involuntary future representations had similar characteristics as involuntary memories in that they were elicited faster, were more specific, and garnered more emotional impact than their voluntary counterparts. We also found that the future and past involuntary MTT led to both positive and negative mood impact, and that the valence of the impact was associated with the emotional valence of the event. This study advances scientific understanding of involuntary future representations in healthy populations and validates a laboratory paradigm that can be flexibly and systematically utilized to explore different characteristics of voluntary and involuntary MTT, which has not been possible within naturalistic paradigms.

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Modifying the Frequency and Characteristics of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

Cited by 69 publications

References 22 publications

A Novel Indirect Method for Capturing Involuntary Musical Imagery under Varying Cognitive Load

A Novel Indirect Method for Capturing Involuntary Musical Imagery under Varying Cognitive Load

Manipulating cues in mind wandering: Verbal cues affect the frequency and the temporal focus of mind wandering

Inducing involuntary and voluntary mental time travel using a laboratory paradigm

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