Remembering the past and imagining the future: examining the consequences of mental time travel on memory

Memory
Benjamin C Storm, Tara A Jobe

Abstract

Cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evidence suggests that remembering the past and imagining the future rely on overlapping processes in episodic memory. The three experiments reported here examine the consequences of remembering the past and imagining the future on the accessibility of other information in memory. Participants first studied events associated with a specific context and then either (a) retrieved past autobiographical events associated with that same context or (b) imagined future autobiographical events associated with that same context. Replicating and extending evidence of retrieval-induced forgetting, remembering autobiographical events from the past caused participants to forget the related studied events. However, imagining future autobiographical events failed to cause participants to forget the related studied events. These results suggest an important difference in the memorial consequences of remembering and imagining.

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Dec 26, 2013·Consciousness and Cognition·Maria Adriana NeroniMaria A Brandimonte
May 25, 2013·PloS One·Nadine DierschSimone Schütz-Bosbach
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