Exploring the roles of distinctiveness and performance anticipation in the Attentional Boost Effect.
We tested the validity of two alternative accounts of the Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) – the finding that words associated with to-be-responded targets are recognized better than words associated with to-be-ignored distractors. The distinctiveness hypothesis assumes that, during recognition, parti...
| Publicado en: | Memory Vol. 31; no. 10; pp. 1282 - 1295 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2023
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