The Role of Direct and Generative Retrieval in Access to Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 58, Issue 2
Abstract
Two distinct retrieval mechanisms were used in access to autobiographical memories, namely direct and generative retrieval. To date, previous studies predominantly compared memories accessed through direct and generative retrieval in only voluntary remembering context. In addition, nearly all studies comparing involuntary (IAMs) and voluntary (VAMs) autobiographical memories did not take this distinction into account. Since involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) were also argued to be accessed through direct retrieval, the present study is the first to compare IAMs with directly retrieved (DR-VAMs) and generated memories (GEN-VAMs) separately in a withinsubjects design. IAMs and VAMs were collected in two consecutive sessions by using Vigilance Task and Galton-Crovitz cue-word technique, respectively. 62 individuals (44 female, 18 male) participated in both sessions. The results revealed that IAMs were similar to DR-VAMs in many aspects, although the latter was deliberately recalled. Specifically, both IAMs and DR-VAMs were retrieved faster than GEN-VAMs. They had more emotional impact on rememberer and they included more specic events, compared to GEN-VAMs. However, the difference in specificity was found to be caused by the personal relevance of the cues; when same cues were used to trigger IAMs and VAMs, higher specificity of IAMs disappeared. Additionally, it was observed that phenomenology of deliberate and spontaneous recollections of the same recent events were not different. Overall, the present findings suggest that most of the differences between IAMs and VAMs result from direct and generative retrieval distinction, rather than deliberate or spontaneous recall of memories.
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Pınar KURDOĞLU ERSOY, Ali İzzet TEKCAN
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- EP ID EP631458
- DOI 10.33171/dtcfjournal.2018.58.2.24
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