Temporal compression in episodic memory for real-life events
| Autor: | Arnaud D'Argembeau, Olivier Jeunehomme, Martial Van der Linden, David Stawarczyk, Adrien Folville |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Memory Episodic Speech recognition media_common.quotation_subject 050105 experimental psychology Wearable Electronic Devices Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception Compression (functional analysis) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Episodic memory General Psychology media_common Autobiographical memory Continuous flow Event (computing) 05 social sciences Life events Mental Recall Time Perception Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Memory. 26:759-770 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0686 0965-8211 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2017.1406120 |
| Popis: | Remembering an event typically takes less time than experiencing it, suggesting that episodic memory represents past experience in a temporally compressed way. Little is known, however, about how the continuous flow of real-life events is summarised in memory. Here we investigated the nature and determinants of temporal compression by directly comparing memory contents with the objective timing of events as measured by a wearable camera. We found that episodic memories consist of a succession of moments of prior experience that represent events with varying compression rates, such that the density of retrieved information is modulated by goal processing and perceptual changes. Furthermore, the results showed that temporal compression rates remain relatively stable over one week and increase after a one-month delay, particularly for goal-related events. These data shed new light on temporal compression in episodic memory and suggest that compression rates are adaptively modulated to maintain current goal-relevant information. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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