The role of attention in remembering important item-location associations.
When encountering an excess of information, people are able to selectively remember high-value information by strategically allocating attention during the encoding period, termed value-directed remembering. This has been demonstrated in both the episodic verbal and visuospatial memory domains. Impo...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 8; pp. 1248 - 1263 |
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