MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note‐Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation
MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note‐Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation
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MEMCONS：同步笔记如何塑造对话记忆
DOI：
10.1111/cogs.13271
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Benjamin, Aaron S.
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作者：
Brown‐Schmidt, Sarah;Jaeger, Christopher B.;Evans, Melissa J.;Benjamin, Aaron S.
书面谈话备忘录，或备忘录，提供了对话中所说内容的近乎同时代的记录，并为知名人士的活动提供了重要的见解。我们评估了写备忘录对对话记忆的影响。两名参与者进行对话，并被要求在一周后回忆对话的内容。每对参与者中的一人在对话结束后不久在备忘录中记录了互动的内容。生成备忘录的参与者比没有生成备忘录的参与者回忆起更多的对话细节，但回忆的内容对两个参与者来说都是相同的，基本上是准确的。值得注意的是，在推迟一周后，双方只回忆起了4.7%的谈话细节。同时记笔记似乎通过增加记住的信息量而不是提高信息的准确性来增强对话的记忆力。这些发现对评估参与者在具有重大政治或法律分支的对话中的证词具有重要意义。
Written memoranda of conversations, or memcons, provide a near‐contemporaneous record of what was said in conversation, and offer important insights into the activities of high‐profile individuals. We assess the impact of writing a memcon on memory for conversation. Pairs of participants engaged in conversation and were asked to recall the contents of that conversation 1 week later. One participant in each pair memorialized the content of the interaction in a memcon shortly after the conversation. Participants who generated memcons recalled more details of the conversations than participants who did not, but the content of recall was equally and largely accurate for both participants. Remarkably, only 4.7% of the details of the conversation were recalled by both of the partners after a week delay. Contemporaneous note‐taking appears to enhance memory for conversation by increasing the amount of information remembered but not the accuracy of that information. These findings have implications for evaluating the testimony of participants on conversations with major political or legal ramifications.