Selective memory disrupted in intra-modal dual-task encoding conditions.

Given natural memory limitations, people can generally attend to and remember high-value over low-value information even when cognitive resources are depleted in older age and under divided attention during encoding, representing an important form of cognitive control. In the current study, we exami...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 7; pp. 1453 - 1473
Autores principales: Siegel, Alexander L. M., Schwartz, Shawn T., Castel, Alan D.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2021
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          Siegel, Alexander L. M.
          Schwartz, Shawn T.
          Castel, Alan D.
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          Department of Psychology, University of California, 502 Portola Plaza, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA
          Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
          Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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        Memory
        Task performance
        Cognition
        Attention
        Speech perception
        Research evaluation
        Auditory perception
        Space perception
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        Modality
        Selectivity
        Spatial
        Visual
        Modality
        Selectivity
        Spatial
        Visual
      ab: Given natural memory limitations, people can generally attend to and remember high-value over low-value information even when cognitive resources are depleted in older age and under divided attention during encoding, representing an important form of cognitive control. In the current study, we examined whether tasks requiring overlapping processing resources may impair the ability to selectively encode information in dual-task conditions. Participants in the divided-attention conditions of Experiment 1 completed auditory tone-distractor tasks that required them to discriminate between tones of different pitches (audio-nonspatial) or auditory channels (audio-spatial), while studying items in different locations in a grid (visual-spatial) differing in reward value. Results indicated that, while reducing overall memory accuracy, neither cross-modal auditory distractor task influenced participants' ability to selectively encode high-value items relative to a full attention condition, suggesting maintained cognitive control. Participants in Experiment 2 studied the same important visual-spatial information while completing demanding color (visual-nonspatial) or pattern (visual-spatial) discrimination tasks during study. While the cross-modal visual-nonspatial task did not influence memory selectivity, the intra-modal visual-spatial secondary task eliminated participants' sensitivity to item value. These results add novel evidence of conditions of impaired cognitive control, suggesting that the effectiveness of top-down, selective encoding processes is attenuated when concurrent tasks rely on overlapping processing resources.
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