Características fenomenológicas de los recuerdos dependientes del contexto
- Díez Villoria, Emiliano
- Alonso Rodríguez, María Ángeles
- Fernández Ramos, Ángel
ISSN: 0214-3550, 1579-3702
Any de publicació: 1999
Volum: 11
Número: 2
Pàgines: 175-198
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Cognitiva
Resum
The relationship between environmental context and memory has been experimentally studied with puzzling results. A different approach, based on the use of a phenomenological questionnaire (the MCQ, Johnson et al., 1988), provides data that helps to understand some characteristics of context-dependent memory. The results allow for a characterization of this type of memory as one in which the location where the event takes place and the season of occurrence are clear, the story line is simple and realistic, and the subjects remember how they felt at the time when the event took place. Contextually based memories appear to contain little information relative to sounds, smells, touch and taste, and, in retrospective, the event is not judged to be of particular importance in the life of the rememberer. Besides providing a characterization of the phenomenon that is more complete than previous accounts, the data also provide suggestions for further empirical research.