Cargando…

The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories

In current research, variations in retrospective passage of time judgments for long intervals are commonly attributed to differences regarding the number of experiences in these intervals or the accessibility of the respective memories. This seems to imply the assumption of a covert retrieval, where...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kosak, Ferdinand, Hilbert, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8551580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721224
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.744551
_version_ 1784591190193078272
author Kosak, Ferdinand
Hilbert, Sven
author_facet Kosak, Ferdinand
Hilbert, Sven
author_sort Kosak, Ferdinand
collection PubMed
description In current research, variations in retrospective passage of time judgments for long intervals are commonly attributed to differences regarding the number of experiences in these intervals or the accessibility of the respective memories. This seems to imply the assumption of a covert retrieval, where authors presume that memories from the respective interval influence the experience of time without these memories being explicitly activated when judging. However, no studies have systematically investigated the relation between the experience of time and the respective experiences and memories. To this end, we analyzed data from three studies in which participants judged the passage of the last 5 years either before being asked to select outstanding life events from a list (Studies 1a and b; N = 293 and 263) or before recalling as many meaningful personal memories as were spontaneously accessible (Study 2; N = 262). Despite applying a statistically powerful trial-by-trial mixed-effects modeling approach, neither in the separate datasets nor in the combined dataset, passage of time judgments were predicted by the number of reported events or memories. This suggests that people's spontaneous judgments of the passage of multiannual intervals are not necessarily affected by a covert retrieval of memories from the respective period.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8551580
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-85515802021-10-29 The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories Kosak, Ferdinand Hilbert, Sven Front Psychol Psychology In current research, variations in retrospective passage of time judgments for long intervals are commonly attributed to differences regarding the number of experiences in these intervals or the accessibility of the respective memories. This seems to imply the assumption of a covert retrieval, where authors presume that memories from the respective interval influence the experience of time without these memories being explicitly activated when judging. However, no studies have systematically investigated the relation between the experience of time and the respective experiences and memories. To this end, we analyzed data from three studies in which participants judged the passage of the last 5 years either before being asked to select outstanding life events from a list (Studies 1a and b; N = 293 and 263) or before recalling as many meaningful personal memories as were spontaneously accessible (Study 2; N = 262). Despite applying a statistically powerful trial-by-trial mixed-effects modeling approach, neither in the separate datasets nor in the combined dataset, passage of time judgments were predicted by the number of reported events or memories. This suggests that people's spontaneous judgments of the passage of multiannual intervals are not necessarily affected by a covert retrieval of memories from the respective period. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8551580/ /pubmed/34721224 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.744551 Text en Copyright © 2021 Kosak and Hilbert. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Kosak, Ferdinand
Hilbert, Sven
The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories
title The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories
title_full The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories
title_fullStr The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories
title_full_unstemmed The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories
title_short The Passage of Years: Not a Matter of Covert Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories
title_sort passage of years: not a matter of covert retrieval of autobiographical memories
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8551580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721224
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.744551
work_keys_str_mv AT kosakferdinand thepassageofyearsnotamatterofcovertretrievalofautobiographicalmemories
AT hilbertsven thepassageofyearsnotamatterofcovertretrievalofautobiographicalmemories
AT kosakferdinand passageofyearsnotamatterofcovertretrievalofautobiographicalmemories
AT hilbertsven passageofyearsnotamatterofcovertretrievalofautobiographicalmemories