Mental representation of autobiographical memories along the sagittal mental timeline: Evidence from spatiotemporal interference.

ABSTRACT: Time is usually conceived of in terms of space: many natural languages refer to time according to a back-to-front axis. Indeed, whereas the past is usually conceived to be "behind us", the future is considered to be "in front of us." Despite temporal coding is pivotal for the development of autonoetic consciousness, little is known about the organization of autobiographical memories along this axis. Here we developed a spatial compatibility task (SCT) to test the organization of autobiographical memories along the sagittal plane, using spatiotemporal interference. Twenty-one participants were asked to recall both episodic and semantic autobiographical memories (EAM and SAM, respectively) to be used in the SCT. Then, during the SCT, they were asked to decide whether each event occurred befo

SUBMITTER: Teghil A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8367924 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature