Remembering and forecasting: The relation between autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking

Berntsen, Dorthe; Bohn, Annette

doi:10.3758/mc.38.3.265

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“…Addis and her colleagues interpreted their findings in terms of a more important cognitive demand in pre-experiencing an event compared with remembering an event. The increased cognitive demand would tax above all executive functions because EFT requires the extraction and recombination of an infinite assortment of details into a novel event, whereas AM consists in the recapitulation of a more limited pool of details [6]. This notion is in accord with De Vito et al's [19] study, showing impaired EFT performance with preserved AM scores in Parkinson disease patients, who present with a characteristic dysexecutive syndrome.…”

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Impaired mental simulation of specific past and future personal events in non-depressed multiple sclerosis patients

Ernst

Blanc

Seze

et al. 2014

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

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The aims of the present study were (i) to explore autobiographical memory and episodic future thought in multiple sclerosis (MS), using Levine's Autobiographical Interview; (ii) to investigate the influence of the Interview's high retrieval support condition (the specific probe phase) on MS patients' past and future simulations and (iii) to obtain the patients' estimations of their own difficulties, during the test, and in everyday life. To that end, we examined 39 non-depressed relapsing-remitting MS patients and 34 healthy subjects matched for gender, age and education level. The 73 participants underwent an adapted version of the Autobiographical Interview in two conditions: remembering and imagining personal events. The group of patients also underwent an extended neuropsychological baseline, including particularly, anterograde memory and executive functions. The results showed that the MS patients' scores on the baseline were mildly or not impaired. On the contrary, the Autobiographical Interview measure, i.e., the mean number of internal details, for each of the two phases of the test -free recall and specific probe -was significantly lower in simulated past and future events in comparison with the healthy controls. Within each group, autobiographical memory performance was superior to episodic future thought performance. A strong positive correlation was observed between past and future mental simulation scores in both groups.In conclusion, our results showed, for the first time, the co-occurrence of deficit of remembering the past and imagining the future in MS patients. They also showed more difficulty in imagining future events than remembering past events for both patients and normal controls. MS being a neurological condition very frequent in the young adult population, the clinical considerations of our study might be of interest. Indeed, they give rise to new insights on MS patients' daily life difficulties related to impaired mental simulation of personal events despite general abilities, including anterograde memory, only mildly or not impaired.

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Impaired mental simulation of specific past and future personal events in non-depressed multiple sclerosis patients

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Blanc

Seze

et al. 2014

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

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“…2 D'Argembeau and Van der Linden (2004) manipulated the emotional valence and temporal distance of imagined events. It was found that participants reported greater autonoetic feelings and more vivid mental representations when imagining positive rather than negative, and temporally close rather than distant, future events (see also Berntsen & Bohn, 2010;Rasmussen & Berntsen, 2013). Szpunar and McDermott (2008) investigated the influence of the familiarity of contextual settings in which imagined future events take place.…”

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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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“…It is commonly accepted that culture impacts on self-construal (Markus & Kitayama, 1991), influencing how we define ourselves (Rhee et al, 1995;Wang, 2001;2004) and how we remember our earliest (Wang, 2006) and most self-defining memories (Jobson & O'Kearney, 2008). In the field of autobiographical memory, it has been suggested that cultural life scripts organize the retrieval of memories across the lifespan, influencing the way people construct both their past (Berntsen & Rubin, 2004), and future (Berntsen & Bohn, 2010). Thus, culture is argued to play a central role in the construction of our identities and in how we recall the past and imagine the future.…”

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Imagining the future: A cross-cultural perspective on possible selves

Rathbone

Salgado

Akan

et al. 2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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This study examined the impact of culture on the qualitative and quantitative features of possible selves. Young adults from Turkey (n = 55), Serbia (n = 64), and the United Kingdom (n = 73) generated images of eight possible selves (e.g. I will be a doctor) which were dated and rated for vividness, positivity, imagery perspective, rehearsal, and according to whether or not they involved other people. All possible selves were coded according to categories (e.g. job, parenthood, self-improvement). There were cross-cultural differences in the types of possible selves generated and in the ratings for vividness, positivity, and rehearsal. Across all three cultures, specific possible selves were more frequently generated than abstract possible selves. Specific possible selves were rated as significantly more vivid and were dated as emerging later than abstract possible selves. Results are discussed with reference to cultural life scripts and the effects of culture on future cognitions.

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Remembering and forecasting: The relation between autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking

Cited by 247 publications

References 58 publications

Impaired mental simulation of specific past and future personal events in non-depressed multiple sclerosis patients

Impaired mental simulation of specific past and future personal events in non-depressed multiple sclerosis patients

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

Imagining the future: A cross-cultural perspective on possible selves

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