| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined the nature and underlying mechanism of involuntary thoughts (task unrelated thoughts) and involuntary memories (involuntary remembering of autobiographical memories). The findings are as follows. 1) Both inhibition mechanism for proactive interference and working memory are important to prevent involuntary thoughts. 2) Phonological short-term memory is involved in the maintenance of involuntary thoughts. 3) Awareness of involuntary thoughts is caused by passive monitoring resulted from the input of external stimuli. 4) During lecture, the rate of involuntary thought occurrence varies with time in the form of rise-fall-rise. 5) In involuntary remembering of autobiographical memories, the first accessed information in the network of autobiographical knowledge is retrieved directly.
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