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- Title
Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-Tracker.
- Authors
Nourkova, Veronika V.
- Abstract
The compressed life review (CLR) is a mnemonic illusion of having "your entire life flashing before your eyes". This research was guided by concerns over the retrospective methodology used in CLR studies. To depart from this methodology, I considered the long-term working memory (WM), "concentric", and "activation-based" models of memory. A novel theoretically rooted laboratory-based experimental technique aimed to elicit the CLR-like experience with no risk to healthy participants was developed. It consists of listening to superimposed audio recordings of previously trained verbal cues to an individually composed set of self-defining memories (SDMs). The technique evoked a self-reported CLR-like experience in 10 out of 20 participants. A significant similarity in eye movement patterns between a single SDM condition and a choir of SDM conditions in self-reported CLR experiencers was confirmed. In both conditions, stimuli caused relative visual immobilization, in contrast to listening to a single neutral phrase, and a choir of neutral phrases that led to active visual exploration. The data suggest that CLR-like phenomenology may be successfully induced by triggering short-term access to the verbally cued SDMs and may be associated with specific patterns of visual activity that are not reportedly involved with deliberate autobiographical retrieval.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; LONG-term memory; SHORT-term memory; EYE movements; IMMOBILIZATION stress; MNEMONICS; SOUND recordings
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 3, p60
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs10030060