title: The degree of disparateness of event details modulates future simulation construction, plausibility, and recall.
abstract: Several episodic simulation studies have suggested that the plausibility of future events may be influenced by the disparateness of the details comprising the event. However, no study had directly investigated this idea. In the current study, we designed a novel episodic combination paradigm that varied the disparateness of details through a social sphere manipulation. Participants recalled memory details from three different social spheres. Details were recombined either within spheres or across spheres to create detail sets for which participants imagined future events in a second session. Across-sphere events were rated as significantly less plausible than within-sphere events and were remembered less often. The presented paradigm, which increases control over the disparateness of details in future event simulations, may be useful for future studies concerned with the similarity of the simulations to previous events and its plausibility.
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.|b Centre for Brain Research , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: van Mulukom
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , Harvard University , Cambridge , MA , USA.
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Schacter
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.|b Centre for Brain Research , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Corballis
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.|b Centre for Brain Research , The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Donna Rose
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Addis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D012931:Social Environment; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Autobiographical memory; Episodic future though; Imagination; Simulation