Offloading to-be-remembered information is a ubiquitous memory strategy, yet in relying on external memory stores, our ability to recall from internal memory is often diminished. In the present investigation, we examine how offloading impacts true and false recall. Across three experiments, participants studied and wrote down word lists that were each strongly associated with an unstudied critical word. Recall in the Offloading condition (i.e., when they were told that they would have access to their written lists during recall) was contrasted with a No-Offloading condition (i.e., when they were told that they would not have access to their written lists during recall). We found that offloading decreased true recall of presented words while increasing false recall for unpresented critical words. Results are discussed in terms of offloading's differential effects on the formation of gist and verbatim traces during encoding.

卸载要记住的信息是一种普遍存在的存储策略，但是依靠外部存储存储，我们从内部存储器调用的能力通常会降低。在当前的调查中，我们研究了卸载如何影响真假召回。在三个实验中，参与者研究并写下了与未研究的关键单词密切相关的单词列表。在卸载条件召回（即，当他们被告知，他们将不得不召回期间获得他们的书面清单）与无卸载条件（被对比即，当他们被告知，他们将不在召回期间可以访问其书面清单）。我们发现，分流减少了对所呈现单词的真实回忆，而对未呈现的关键单词则增加了错误回忆。讨论了卸载对编码过程中要点和逐字迹线形成的不同影响。