Until recently, little was known about whether or how autobiographical memory (i.e., memory of personal information) activates eye movement. This issue is now being addressed by several studies demonstrating not only how autobiographical memory activates eye movement, but also how eye movement influences the characteristics of autobiographical retrieval. This paper summarizes this research and presents a hypothesis according to which fixations and saccades during autobiographical retrieval mirror the construction of the visual image of the retrieved event. This hypothesis suggests that eye movements during autobiographical retrieval mirror the attempts of the visual system to generate and manipulate mental representations of autobiographical retrieval. It offers a theoretical framework for a burgeoning area of research that provides a rigorous behavioral evaluation of the phenomenological experience of memory.

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当你回顾过去时：自传检索过程中的眼球运动


直到最近，人们对自传体记忆（即个人信息的记忆）是否或如何激活眼球运动知之甚少。现在有几项研究正在解决这个问题，这些研究不仅证明了自传体记忆如何激活眼球运动，而且还证明了眼球运动如何影响自传体检索的特征。本文总结了这项研究，并提出了一个假设，根据该假设，自传检索过程中的注视和扫视反映了检索事件的视觉图像的构建。这一假设表明，自传体检索过程中的眼球运动反映了视觉系统尝试生成和操纵自传体检索的心理表征。它为一个新兴的研究领域提供了一个理论框架，该领域对记忆的现象学体验进行了严格的行为评估。