A Role for Self-Referential Processing in Tasks Requiring Participants to Imagine Survival on the Savannah

作者：Klein Stanley B^*

来源：Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 2012, 38(5): 1234-1242.

DOI：10.1037/a0027636

• memory
• evolution
• self
• planning
• temporality

This paper examines the role of self-reference as a possible mechanism underlying the superior recall found with survival processing. I suggest that previous failures to find comparable recall with self-referential encoding may be due to neglecting to ensure that task instructions require episodic retrieval. The studies reported herein show that when instructions explicitly request episodic retrieval, self-referential processing promotes recall that is statistically equivalent to that found with survival processing tasks. I conclude that the role of self-referential processing remains a viable component of the excellent memory produced by survival encoding instructions.

• 出版日期2012-9