Attention and implicit memory: priming-induced benefits and costs have distinct attentional requirements.

Attention at encoding plays a critical and ubiquitous role in explicit memory performance, but its role in implicit memory performance (i.e., priming) is more variable: some, but not all, priming effects are reduced by division of attention at encoding. A wealth of empirical and theoretical work has...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 216 - 226
Autores principales: Keane, Margaret, Cruz, Matt, Verfaellie, Mieke
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2015
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