The self-imagination effect: benefits of a self-referential encoding strategy on cued recall in memory-impaired individuals with neurological damage.

摘要: Knowledge of oneself is preserved in many memory-impaired individuals with neurological damage. Therefore, cognitive strategies that capitalize on mechanisms related to the self may be particularly effective at enhancing memory this population. The present study investigated effect "self-imagining," imagining an event from a personal perspective, short and long delayed cued recall Sixteen patients intentionally encoded word pairs under four separate conditions: visual imagery, semantic elaboration, other person imagining, self-imagining. results revealed self-imagining led better performance than other-imagining, imagery. Furthermore, "self-imagination effect" (SIE) was after 30-min delay independent functioning. These findings indicate provides mnemonic advantage brain-injured individuals, even those relatively poor functioning, suggest tap into self.