The capacity to change with experience infuses our perceptions, thoughts, and actions in and about the past, present, and future. The cognitive system supporting this capacity for change can be exquisitely responsive to external events and yet can influence how those external events affect us. This interplay between the external and internal has been a major theme of my lab group's research. We proposed that the fundamental ambiguity of subjective experience requires ongoing reality monitoring processes for evaluating its veridicality and proposed a source monitoring framework for exploring the encoding, activation, and evaluation of information. We further proposed a functional architecture, a multiple-entry modular memory system, that characterizes component subprocesses of cognition that give rise to remembering and other subjective phenomena (e.g., knowledge, beliefs, emotion, consciousness, self). I first discuss these approaches and some issues they address and then describe some educational and professional experiences that provided opportunities to investigate this fascinating epistemological puzzle.

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反思主观经验的起源


随着经验而改变的能力将我们的感知、思想和行动注入到过去、现在和未来。支持这种变化能力的认知系统可以对外部事件做出精细的反应，但可以影响这些外部事件如何影响我们。这种外部和内部之间的相互作用一直是我实验室小组研究的一个主要主题。我们提出，主观体验的基本模糊性需要持续的现实监控过程来评估其真实性，并提出了一个用于探索信息编码、激活和评估的来源监控框架。我们进一步提出了一种功能架构，即多条目模块化记忆系统，它表征了产生记忆和其他主观现象（例如，知识、信念、情感、意识、自我）的认知组件子过程。我首先讨论了这些方法和它们解决的一些问题，然后描述了一些教育和专业经验，这些经验为研究这个迷人的认识论难题提供了机会。