Nouveau preprint - La profondeur cachée des souvenirs

Dans cette nouvelle étude co-signée par plusieurs membres de l'équipe ADC (Lucas Raynal, Evelyne Clément, Hippolyte Gros, et Emmanuel Sander), la question de l'évocation de souvenir autobiographique est abordée. Remettant en question les théories classiques selon lesquelles l'évocation de souvenirs serait principalement dépendante des traits de surface des situations, cette étude propose, au travers de 3 expériences, de montrer l'importance de la structure profonde des situations dans leur évocation. Vous trouverez ci-dessous l'abstract graphique synthétisant l'étude :

Whereas surface and structural features are often correlated in real-life situations, it is necessary to disentangle them in experimental situations  to determine  their respective influence   in   driving   analogical   retrieval.   We   introduce   a   free-reminding   experimental paradigm to assess the types of autobiographical memories which are elicited when target cues show typical associations (Experiment 1), or less typical associations (Experiment 2) between surface and structural features. Experiment 1 showed that fully-fledged structural similarities, and to a lesser extent partial structural similarities, have a significant influence on the retrieval of superficially similar situations. By setting a retrieval competition between surface and structural similarities, Experiment 2 provides support to our structural superiority hypothesis   that   superficially   dissimilar   analogs   are   more   frequently   retrieved   than superficially similar disanalogs. Our data are consistent with the view that the conjunction of surface and structural similarities is highly efficient in driving retrieval, but that structural overcomes surface similarities when they are dissociated.

Texte intégral : https://osf.io/f2a37