Selective Attention during Retrieval Harms Initial Recognition Memory Performance but not Subsequent Retrieval Events
Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Previous research provides conflicting results regarding attention's role during memory retrieval.Some studies show that divided attention has no effect at all on performance (Baddeley, Lewis, Eldridge & Thompson, 1984, Anderson, Craik & Naveh-Benjamin, 1998, Clarke & Butier, 2008, Dudukovic, DuBrow & Wagner, 2009) while other studies show a detriment in performance during divided as opposed to full attention during a memory test (Troyer, Winocur, Craik & Moscovitch, 1999, Hicks & Marsh, 2000, Lozito & Mulligan, 2006, Dudukovic,et al., 2009).The present study explores the way selective attention during retrieval affects recognition memory and subsequent retrieval events.The results of two experiments show that selective attention during memory retrieval reduces hit rates during initial testing, but that difference in performance between full and selective attention conditions is diminished on subsequent tests.Implications for attention's role in memory as well as relations to the testing effect are discussed.VI
Author: Ashley Hartman
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1506848634