The dynamic competition between item distinctiveness and attentional boost effect.

The Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) refers to the enhancement in memory for background information that co-occurs with the detection of a target in a detection task. Previous research suggests that this effect is modulated by item distinctiveness, meaning that when background items have high distinct...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 1773 - 1790
Main Authors:	Meng, Yingfang, Chen, Peijie, Xu, Shuangxing, Zhao, Xin, Huang, Qiuhua, Paterson, Kevin B.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jul2026
Subjects:	Task performance Universities & colleges Attention Memory Analysis of variance College students Cognition Repeated measures design Data analysis Questionnaires Cognitive processing speed Descriptive statistics Experimental design Psychology of movement Statistics Reaction time Comparative studies Data analysis software
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