Out-of-body memory encoding causes third-person perspective at recall

Autor: H. Henrik Ehrsson, Loretxu Bergouignan, Lars Nyberg
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Popis: Published online: 30 Sep 2021 Sigmund Freud famously noted some memories are recalled with a perspective of “an observer from outside the scene”. According to Freud—and most memory researchers today—the third-person perspective occurs due to reconstructive processes at recall. An alternative possibility is that the third-person perspective have been adopted when the actual event is experienced and later recalled in its original form. Here we test this hypothesis using a perceptual out-of-body illusion during the encoding of real events. Participants took part in a social interaction while experiencing an out-ofbody illusion where they viewed the event and their own body from a third-person perspective. In recall sessions ∼1 week later, events encoded in the out-of-body compared to the in-body control condition were significantly less recalled from a firstperson perspective. An out-of-body experience leads to more third-person perspective during recollection. This work was supported by Spanish State Research Agency through RETOS (FEDER) PSI2015-73408-Joven Investigador; the Basque Government through the BERC 2018-2021 program and by the Spanish State Research Agency through BCBL Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2015-0490
Databáze: OpenAIRE