The association between real-world experiential diversity and event cognition
The association between real-world experiential diversity and event cognition
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10.1101/2022.07.07.499122
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2022-07
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Carl J. Hodgetts;Mark Postans;Angharad N. Williams
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作者：
Carl J. Hodgetts;Mark Postans;Angharad N. Williams
有效地将我们的经验解析为有意义的事件的能力被认为是构建情景记忆，参与日常活动以及导航社会和空间环境的关键。尽管如此，人们对这种能力的个体间差异是如何出现的知之甚少。在159名年轻人的样本中，我们发现，个体暴露于各种社会和空间体验（体验多样性）的程度与事件分割显著相关，例如，在社会和空间生活中具有更大日常变化的个体在电影观看任务中产生更多细粒度的事件分割。此外，当控制潜在的困惑，如焦虑和孤独时，这种效果仍然存在。这些结果为现实世界的经验如何塑造关键的记忆编码机制提供了新的见解，提供了一个潜在的认知途径，通过该途径，社会脱节影响认知健康和福祉。
The ability to effectively parse our experience into meaningful events is thought to be critical for structuring episodic memory, engaging in daily activities, and navigating the social and spatial environment. Despite this, little is known about how inter-individual variation in this ability emerges. Within a sample of 159 young adults, we found that the degree to which individuals were exposed to a diverse range of social and spatial experiences (experiential diversity) was significantly related to event segmentation, such that individuals with greater daily variation in their social and spatial lives produced more fine-grained event segmentations during a movie-viewing task. Moreover, this effect remained when controlling for potential confounds, such as anxiety and loneliness. These results provide new insights into how real-world experiences may shape key memory encoding mechanisms, providing a potential cognitive pathway through which social disconnectedness impacts cognitive health and wellbeing.