Divided attention can enhance memory encoding: The attentional boost effect in implicit memory.

Spataro, Pietro; Mulligan, Neil W.; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia

doi:10.1037/a0030907

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“…The experiment replicated the results of Spataro et al (2013) in finding an ABE with verbal materials. More importantly, this experiment demonstrated that the ABE occurs with auditory recognition, and to the same degree as with a visual test, a first demonstration that the ABE generalizes over test modahty.…”

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“…First, the results of the visual testing condition replicate the results of Spataro et al (2013); The ABE was found in the DA condition but not in the FA condition. This replication is important because Spataro et al were the first report of an ABE using verbal rather than pictorial materials.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…The ABE is likely not based on semantic elaboration. First, the effect arises even when the study trials are quite brief; 800 ms in the current Experiments 1, 4, and 5 and 500 ms in Spataro et al (2013) and Swallow and Jiang (2010). Semantic elaboration is typically conceived of as a controlled rehearsal process that unfolds over time.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Given the overwhelming evidence that DA dismpts memory encoding, it is critical to further analyze this phenomenon, here done with respect to explicit memory for verbal stimuli. The results of Spataro et al (2013) show that the ABE can be found with verbal materials (at least in recognition memory). In addition, the most parsimonious account of the ABE for both pictorial and verbal materials proposes that enhanced perceptual processing leads to the etihanced memory for items co-occurring with targets.…”

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“…Less central to the goals of the present article, Spataro et al (2013) also found an ABE for two perceptual implicit memory tests, word fragment completion and lexical decision. In both cases, study words accompanied by target circles (DA target items) produced more perceptual priming than words accompanied by distractor circles (DA distractor items).…”

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The attentional boost effect with verbal materials.

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Study stimuli presented at the same time as unrelated targets in a detection task are better remembered than stimuli presented with distractors. This attentional boost effect (ABE) has been found with pictorial (Swallow & Jiang, 2010) and more recently verbal materials (Spataro, Mulligan, & Rossi-Arnaud, 2013). The present experiments examine the generality of the ABE with verbal materials and critically assess the perceptual encoding hypothesis, the notion that the memory benefits are due to enhanced encoding of the perceptual properties of the study stimulus. Experiments 1 and 3 demonstrated an ABE with visual study items, comparable in size whether the recognition test was visual or auditory. Experiments 2 and 3 established an ABE for auditory study stimuli that was again equivalent for auditory and visual recognition tests. Experiments 4 and 5 found an ABE on the test of free recall. Finally, the ABE was greater for high-frequency than low-frequency words. The results demonstrate the generality of the ABE over study and test modality, and over memory tests (recognition and free recall), while also documenting a moderating factor (word frequency). Importantly, the representational basis for the ABE with verbal materials appears to be abstract, or amodal, rather than modality specific.

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The distribution of spatial attention changes with task demands during goal-directed reaching

Long

Ma-Wyatt

2014

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Goal-directed movements are commonly used to allow humans to interact with their environment. When making a goal-directed movement in a natural environment, there are many competing stimuli. It is therefore important to understand how making a goal-directed movement could be impacted by the need to divide attention between the movement and competing stimuli. We used a dual-task paradigm to investigate the sharing of attentional resources between a search task in central vision and a peripheral pointing task completed concurrently. Results suggest some degree of shared attentional resources between these two tasks with performance on both central and peripheral tasks degraded under dual-task conditions. Movement latency, but not movement time, was also affected by dual-task conditions. Altogether, the results suggest that there is a cost to reach performance if attention is engaged away from the movement goal. Interestingly, this cost is associated with movement planning rather than execution.

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Improved memory for error feedback

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Schouppe

Notebaert

2015

Psychological Research

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Surprising feedback in a general knowledge test leads to an improvement in memory for both the surface features and the content of the feedback (Psychon Bull Rev 16:88-92, 2009). Based on the idea that in cognitive tasks, error is surprising (the orienting account, Cognition 111:275-279, 2009), we tested whether error feedback would be better remembered than correct feedback. Colored words were presented as feedback signals in a flanker task, where the color indicated the accuracy. Subsequently, these words were again presented during a recognition task (Experiment 1) or a lexical decision task (Experiments 2 and 3). In all experiments, memory was improved for words seen as error feedback. These results are compared to the attentional boost effect (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 39:1223-12231, 2013) and related to the orienting account for post-error slowing (Cognition 111:275-279, 2009).

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Divided attention can enhance memory encoding: The attentional boost effect in implicit memory.

Cited by 66 publications

References 46 publications

The attentional boost effect with verbal materials.

The attentional boost effect with verbal materials.

The distribution of spatial attention changes with task demands during goal-directed reaching

Improved memory for error feedback

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