Where do we "go" when we recollect our past? When remembering a past event, it is intuitive to imagine some part of ourselves mentally "jumping back in time" to when the event occurred. I propose an alternative view, inspired by recent evidence from my lab and others, as well as by reexamining existing models of episodic recall that suggests that this notion of mentally revisiting any specific moment of our past is at best incomplete and at worst misleading. Instead, I suggest that we retrieve information from our past by mentally casting ourselves back simultaneously to many time points from our past, much like a quantum wave function spreading its probability mass over many possible states. This revised conceptual model makes important behavioral and neural predictions about how we retrieve information about our past, and has implications for how we study episodic memory experimentally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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情景记忆：精神时间旅行还是量子“记忆波”功能？

当我们回忆过去时，我们“去”哪里？在回忆过去的事件时，很容易想象自己的某些部分在心理上“回到过去”，回到事件发生的时间。我提出了另一种观点，受到我实验室和其他人最近的证据的启发，以及通过重新检查现有的情景回忆模型，这些模型表明这种在精神上重新审视我们过去任何特定时刻的概念充其量是不完整的，最糟糕的是具有误导性。相反，我建议我们通过在精神上让自己同时回到过去的许多时间点来检索过去的信息，就像量子波函数在许多可能的状态上传播其概率质量一样。这个修订后的概念模型对我们如何检索过去的信息做出了重要的行为和神经预测，并且对我们如何通过实验研究情景记忆有影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。