Table 1 List and description of the subjective assessments of the events. The variables were subjectively assessed by the subjects on scales from 0 to 5 for each item at the end of the encoding session and at the end of each recall session.
From: Decoding episodic autobiographical memory in naturalistic virtual reality
Variable | Description |
|---|---|
Emotional intensity | Intensity: emotional intensity |
Emotional valence | Valence: emotional valence, whether the event is pleasant or unpleasant |
Self-relevance | Personal importance of the event, whether the event is personally significant |
Remembering | Knowing or remembering, whether one knows the event happened or actively recollects it |
Perspective | Observer or actor perspective, whether one observes the images in the memory or whether one sees them as they lived the event |
Self-concept | Characterisation: event characteristic of oneself, how the event reflects personality, objectives, desires |
Thinking | Internal: anticipated frequency of mental repetition over the following month |
Conversation | External: anticipated frequency of external repetition over the following month, with friends and family for instance |
Anticipated details | Prediction of details still present in a month, precision of the event in memory in a month of time given the number of details available |
Reliving | To what extent the event is relived with details |
Mental images | Number of mental images prompted by this event |
Frequency of real-life encounter | Whether the event can be often encountered in real life |
