Episodic memory and the control of performance

拟议的研究计划是对记忆在行动中的作用的调查。核心思想是，行动通常是从记忆中选择的，这些记忆是在类似的情况下做出的。这个简单的观点整合了广泛的理论思想和经验现象。该提案涵盖了三个研究方向：行动选择实验、行动提示实验和行动控制实验。在研究的第一行中，研究参与者从几个可能的行动中进行选择，他们选择的性质作为当前背景和最近过去所做的事情的功能进行检查。在第二项研究中，提供了可能促进先前事件检索的线索，并测量了对反应时间的影响。在研究的最后，我们将研究在不同的任务中使用检索线索来控制认知加工。所有这些研究的重点都在于对先前事件的记忆提取的作用以及记忆提取线索的性质如何影响这一过程。

The proposed program of research is an investigation of the role of memory in action. The core idea is that actions are often selected from memory of previous actions made in similar circumstances. This simple perspective integrates a wide range of theoretical ideas and empirical phenomena. The proposal spans three lines of research: Experiments on choice of action, experiments on the action cueing, and experiments on the control of action. In the first line of research, research participants select from several possible actions, and the nature of their choice is examined as a function of the current context and what has been done in the recent past. In the second line of research, cues are provided that potentially facilitate the retrieval of prior episodes, and the effect on response time is measured. And in the last line of research, the use of retrieval cues to control cognitive processing in different tasks will be studied. The focus in all of these is on the role of memory retrieval of prior episodes and how the nature of the memory retrieval cue affects that process.