Compressed Life Review: Extreme Manifestation of Autobiographical Memory in Eye-TrackerстатьяИсследовательская статья
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Аннотация: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.