On the representational systems underlying prospection: Evidence from the event-cueing paradigm
On the representational systems underlying prospection: Evidence from the event-cueing paradigm
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.008
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
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3.4
通讯作者：
Demblon, Julie
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作者：
D'Argembeau, Arnaud;Demblon, Julie
思考未来（展望）的能力对于人类认知和行为的许多方面至关重要，从规划和决策到自我控制和认同感的构建。然而，勘探背后的表征系统的确切性质尚未完全了解。最近的研究结果表明情景记忆在想象特定的未来事件中发挥着关键作用，但前景不太可能仅仅依赖于这个系统。在两项研究中使用事件线索范式，我们在这里表明，人们想象的个人未来可能发生的特定事件通常嵌入到更广泛的事件序列（称为事件集群）中，这些事件序列根据因果关系和主题关系将一组设想的事件联系起来。这些发现提供了新颖的证据，表明勘探依赖于多种表征系统，而一般的自传体知识结构提供了一个框架，可以在总体事件序列中组织想象的事件。结果进一步表明，有关个人目标的知识在构建这些事件序列中发挥着重要作用，尤其是在遥远的未来。 (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
The ability to think about the future-prospection-is central to many aspects of human cognition and behavior, from planning and decision making, to self-control and the construction of a sense of identity. Yet, the exact nature of the representational systems underlying prospection is not fully understood. Recent findings point to the critical role of episodic memory in imagining specific future events, but it is unlikely that prospection depends solely on this system. Using an event-cueing paradigm in two studies, we here show that specific events that people imagine might happen in their personal future are commonly embedded in broader event sequences-termed event clusters-that link a set of envisioned events according to causal and thematic relations. These findings provide novel evidence that prospection relies on multiple representational systems, with general autobiographical knowledge structures providing a frame that organizes imagined events in overarching event sequences. The results further suggest that knowledge about personal goals plays an important role in structuring these event sequences, especially for the distant future. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.