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Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker
The compressed life review (CLR) is a mnemonic illusion of having “your entire life flashing before your eyes”. This research was guided by concerns over the retrospective methodology used in CLR studies. To depart from this methodology, I considered the long-term working memory (WM), “concentric”,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139868/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32110854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10030060 |
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description | The compressed life review (CLR) is a mnemonic illusion of having “your entire life flashing before your eyes”. This research was guided by concerns over the retrospective methodology used in CLR studies. To depart from this methodology, I considered the long-term working memory (WM), “concentric”, and “activation-based” models of memory. A novel theoretically rooted laboratory-based experimental technique aimed to elicit the CLR-like experience with no risk to healthy participants was developed. It consists of listening to superimposed audio recordings of previously trained verbal cues to an individually composed set of self-defining memories (SDMs). The technique evoked a self-reported CLR-like experience in 10 out of 20 participants. A significant similarity in eye movement patterns between a single SDM condition and a choir of SDM conditions in self-reported CLR experiencers was confirmed. In both conditions, stimuli caused relative visual immobilization, in contrast to listening to a single neutral phrase, and a choir of neutral phrases that led to active visual exploration. The data suggest that CLR-like phenomenology may be successfully induced by triggering short-term access to the verbally cued SDMs and may be associated with specific patterns of visual activity that are not reportedly involved with deliberate autobiographical retrieval. |
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spelling | pubmed-71398682020-04-13 Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker Nourkova, Veronika V. Behav Sci (Basel) Article The compressed life review (CLR) is a mnemonic illusion of having “your entire life flashing before your eyes”. This research was guided by concerns over the retrospective methodology used in CLR studies. To depart from this methodology, I considered the long-term working memory (WM), “concentric”, and “activation-based” models of memory. A novel theoretically rooted laboratory-based experimental technique aimed to elicit the CLR-like experience with no risk to healthy participants was developed. It consists of listening to superimposed audio recordings of previously trained verbal cues to an individually composed set of self-defining memories (SDMs). The technique evoked a self-reported CLR-like experience in 10 out of 20 participants. A significant similarity in eye movement patterns between a single SDM condition and a choir of SDM conditions in self-reported CLR experiencers was confirmed. In both conditions, stimuli caused relative visual immobilization, in contrast to listening to a single neutral phrase, and a choir of neutral phrases that led to active visual exploration. The data suggest that CLR-like phenomenology may be successfully induced by triggering short-term access to the verbally cued SDMs and may be associated with specific patterns of visual activity that are not reportedly involved with deliberate autobiographical retrieval. MDPI 2020-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7139868/ /pubmed/32110854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10030060 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Nourkova, Veronika V. Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |
title | Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |
title_full | Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |
title_fullStr | Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |
title_full_unstemmed | Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |
title_short | Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker |
title_sort | compressed life review: extreme manifestation of autobiographical memory in eye-tracker |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139868/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32110854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10030060 |
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