Constructing autobiographical events within a spatial or temporal context: a comparison of two targeted episodic induction techniques.

ABSTRACT: Recalling and imagining autobiographical experiences involves constructing event representations within spatiotemporal contexts. We tested whether generating autobiographical events within a primarily spatial (where the event occurred) or temporal (the sequence of actions that occurred) context affected how the associated mental representation was constructed. We leveraged the well-validated episodic specificity induction (ESI) technique, known to influence the use of episodic processes on subsequent tasks, to develop variants that selectively enhance spatial or temporal processing. We tested the effects of these inductions on the details used to describe past and future autobiographical events. We first replicated the standard ESI effect, showing that ESI enhances generating episodic deta

SUBMITTER: Sheldon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716376 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature