Reading stories while responding to colors: The attentional boost effect for coherent verbal stimuli.
Background stimuli presented with an unrelated target in a detection task are better remembered than those presented with a distractor. This attentional boost effect (ABE) has been shown with randomly sequenced, unrelated background images or words. This study examines whether coherent narratives pr...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 2154 - 2172 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=189137929&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 189137929 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 53 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 189137929 10.3758/s13421-025-01703-2 ppf: 2154 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Reading stories while responding to colors: The attentional boost effect for coherent verbal stimuli. aug: au: Oliver, Gavin W. Lee, Vanessa G. affil: https://ror.org/017zqws13 Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N210 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA https://ror.org/017zqws13 Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA su: Reading Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Learning Attention Memory Analysis of variance Semantics Cognition Generative artificial intelligence T-test (Statistics) Narratives Word processing Color vision Descriptive statistics Medical coding Software architecture Evaluation Regression analysis sug: subj: Reading Recognition (Psychology) Task performance Learning Attention Memory Analysis of variance Semantics Cognition Computer systems design and related services (except video game design and development) Generative artificial intelligence T-test (Statistics) Narratives Word processing Color vision Descriptive statistics Medical coding Software architecture Evaluation Regression analysis keyword: Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Text processing Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Text processing ab: Background stimuli presented with an unrelated target in a detection task are better remembered than those presented with a distractor. This attentional boost effect (ABE) has been shown with randomly sequenced, unrelated background images or words. This study examines whether coherent narratives providing meaningful temporal structure interfere with the ABE. Participants studied a series of words for a later memory test while monitoring a concurrent stream of colored squares, pressing the spacebar for target colors and ignoring distractor colors. The words either formed a coherent story (Experiments 1, 3, and 5) or were scrambled in order (Experiments 2 and 4), with a target-to-distractor ratio of 1:1 (Experiments 1–3) or 1:4 (Experiments 4 and 5). Results showed that words paired with the target color were better remembered than those paired with the distractor color, confirming the ABE. However, the ABE was equivalent for coherent and incoherent words, suggesting that narrative coherence did not affect its temporal precision. Contrary to the idea that coherence or temporal relatedness may impose its own temporal structure, the results support the temporal orienting account of the ABE, indicating that target detection triggers a temporally precise orienting response that enhances concurrent task processing. However, constructing a narrative from related words may increase cognitive load, leading to a consistently small ABE across experiments. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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