The study of memories that pop into one's mind without any conscious attempt to retrieve them began only recently. While there are some studies on involuntary autobiographical memories (e.g., ) research on involuntary semantic memories or mind-popping is virtually non-existent. The latter is defined as an involuntary conscious occurrence of brief items of one's network of semantic knowledge. The recall of these items (e.g., a word, a name, a tune) is not accompanied by additional contextual information and/or involvement of self-a standard feature of involuntary autobiographical memories. The paper reports several diary and questionnaire studies which looked into the nature and frequency of occurrence of these memories. The data show that people do experience involuntary semantic memories which tend to occur without any apparent cues while being engaged in relatively automatic activities. Possible mechanisms of involuntary semantic memories are discussed (e.g., very long-term priming), and the results of the study provide information on the possible duration of the priming effects in everyday life. Related theoretical and methodological issues and future avenues of research in this neglected area are outlined.

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出神入化：非自愿语义记忆研究

对突然出现在一个人的脑海中而没有任何有意识地尝试检索它们的记忆的研究直到最近才开始。虽然有一些关于非自愿自传体记忆（例如）的研究，但对非自愿语义记忆或头脑风暴的研究几乎不存在。后者被定义为一个人的语义知识网络的简短项目的无意识有意识的发生。对这些项目（例如，一个词、一个名字、一首曲子）的回忆不伴随额外的上下文信息和/或自我的参与——这是无意识的自传体记忆的标准特征。该论文报告了几项日记和问卷调查，这些研究调查了这些记忆的性质和发生频率。数据表明，人们确实会经历无意识的语义记忆，这些记忆在从事相对自动化的活动时往往没有任何明显的线索。讨论了非自愿语义记忆的可能机制（例如，非常长期的启动），研究结果提供了关于日常生活中启动效应可能持续时间的信息。概述了这一被忽视领域的相关理论和方法论问题以及未来的研究途径。