The attentional boost effect of memory across modalities: Is the attentional boost effect caused by enhanced perceptual processing?

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • O'Toole, Allison
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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  • The attentional boost effect (ABE) refers to a phenomenon in which the usual inhibitory effects of divided attention are overcome, and the divided attention (DA) conditions perform just as well on tests of memory as the full attention (FA) conditions. This effect occurs when participants in the divided attention condition are required to monitor a distracter item and respond to its change. The perceptual encoding hypothesis states that this enhancement in memory is due to an increase in perceptual processing during encoding due to the nature of the distracter task (Swallow & Jiang, 2010, 2011, 2012). This study contains two experiments that provide evidence against the perceptual encoding hypotheses in the ABE using a crossed modality manipulation in recognition and free recall. Other explanations are considered.
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  • Mulligan, Neil
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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