Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: Object Imagers are better at remembering their personal past

Vannucci, Manila; Pelagatti, Claudia; Chiorri, Carlo; Mazzoni, Giuliana

doi:10.1080/09658211.2015.1018277

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“…Indeed, it has been widely suggested that autobiographical memories are dominated by visual imagery and that the retrieval of visual images is the core feature of autobiographical reliving (Brewer, 1996; Conway, 2009). In line with this idea, a study has shown poor autobiographical recall in healthy young participants with low ability to generate pictorial mental images of objects (Vannucci, Pelagatti, Chiorri, & Mazzoni, 2015). Neuropsychological studies have also shown that lesions resulting in a loss of the ability to generate visual images also result in retrograde amnesia (Brown & Chobor, 1995; Greenberg, Eacott, Brechin, & Rubin, 2005; Ogden, 1993).…”

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confidence: 86%

Phenomenological Reliving and Visual Imagery During Autobiographical Recall in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Kapogiannis

Antoine

2016

JAD

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Multiple studies have shown compromise of autobiographical memory and phenomenological reliving in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We investigated various phenomenological features of autobiographical memory to determine their relative vulnerability in AD. To this aim, participants with early AD and cognitively normal older adult controls were asked to retrieve an autobiographical event and rate on a 5-point scale metacognitive judgments (i.e., reliving, back in time, remembering, and realness), component processes (i.e., visual imagery, auditory imagery, language, and emotion), narrative properties (i.e., rehearsal and importance), and spatiotemporal specificity (i.e., spatial details and temporal details). AD participants showed lower general autobiographical recall than controls, and poorer reliving, travel in time, remembering, realness, visual imagery, auditory imagery, language, rehearsal, and spatial detail – a decrease that was especially pronounced for visual imagery. Yet, AD participants showed high rating for emotion and importance. Early AD seems to compromise many phenomenological features, especially visual imagery, but also seems to preserve some other features.

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Phenomenological Reliving and Visual Imagery During Autobiographical Recall in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Kapogiannis

Antoine

2016

JAD

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“…Participants in the voluntary condition were shown a subset of the same cue phrases and had to retrieve a memory to each one. This laboratory method confirmed the difference in specificity found in diary studies (Cole et al ., ; Schlagman & Kvavilashvili, ; Vannucci, Pelagatti, Chiorri, & Mazzoni, ).…”

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How intention and monitoring your thoughts influence characteristics of autobiographical memories

Barzykowski

Staugaard

2017

British J of Psychology

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Involuntary autobiographical memories come to mind effortlessly and unintended, but the mechanisms of their retrieval are not fully understood. We hypothesize that involuntary retrieval depends on memories that are highly accessible (e.g., intense, unusual, recent, rehearsed), while the elaborate search that characterizes voluntary retrieval also produces memories that are mundane, repeated or distant - memories with low accessibility. Previous research provides some evidence for this 'threshold hypothesis'. However, in almost every prior study, participants have been instructed to report only memories while ignoring other thoughts. It is possible that such an instruction can modify the phenomenological characteristics of involuntary memories. This study aimed to investigate the effects of retrieval intentionality (i.e., wanting to retrieve a memory) and selective monitoring (i.e., instructions to report only memories) on the phenomenology of autobiographical memories. Participants were instructed to (1) intentionally retrieve autobiographical memories, (2) intentionally retrieve any type of thought (3) wait for an autobiographical memory to spontaneously appear, or (4) wait for any type of thought to spontaneously appear. They rated the mental content on a number of phenomenological characteristics both during retrieval and retrospectively following retrieval. The results support the prediction that highly accessible memories mostly enter awareness unintended and without selective monitoring, while memories with low accessibility rely on intention and selective monitoring. We discuss the implications of these effects.

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“…While some studies demonstrated that vivid and pictorial object imagery may facilitate memory (Marks, 1973;Vannucci, Pelagatti, Chiorri, & Mazzoni, 2016), other literature showed that the elaboration of sensory details during the encoding leads to the increase in source memory errors (Thomas, Bulevich, & Loftus, 2003). Research has suggested that vivid and rich in sensory detail imagery experiences may lead to later confusion between real and imagined experiences, causing false memory errors (Gonsalves & Paller, 2000;Gonsalves et al, 2004).…”

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Boundary Extension in Face Processing

Blazhenkova

2017

i-Perception

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Boundary extension is a common false memory error, in which people confidently remember seeing a wider angle view of the scene than was viewed. Previous research found that boundary extension is scene-specific and did not examine this phenomenon in nonscenes. The present research explored boundary extension in cropped face images. Participants completed either a short-term or a long-term condition of the task. During the encoding, they observed photographs of faces, cropped either in a forehead or in a chin area, and subsequently performed face recognition through a forced-choice selection. The recognition options represented different degrees of boundary extension and boundary restriction errors. Eye-tracking and performance data were collected. The results demonstrated boundary extension in both memory conditions. Furthermore, previous literature reported the asymmetry in amounts of expansion at different sides of an image. The present work provides the evidence of asymmetry in boundary extension. In the short-term condition, boundary extension errors were more pronounced for forehead, than for chin face areas. Finally, this research examined the relationships between the measures of boundary extension, imagery, and emotion. The results suggest that individual differences in emotional ability and object, but not spatial, imagery could be associated with boundary extension in face processing.

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Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: Object Imagers are better at remembering their personal past

Cited by 74 publications

References 67 publications

Phenomenological Reliving and Visual Imagery During Autobiographical Recall in Alzheimer’s Disease

Phenomenological Reliving and Visual Imagery During Autobiographical Recall in Alzheimer’s Disease

How intention and monitoring your thoughts influence characteristics of autobiographical memories

Boundary Extension in Face Processing

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