The Effects of Divided Attention at Encoding and at Retrieval on Multidimensional Source Memory

Autor/inn/en	Greene, Nathaniel R.; Martin, Benjamin A.; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe
Titel	The Effects of Divided Attention at Encoding and at Retrieval on Multidimensional Source Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47 (2021) 11, S.1870-1887 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Greene, Nathaniel R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001051
Schlagwörter	Attention Control; Memory; Cognitive Processes; Undergraduate Students; Visual Stimuli; Auditory Stimuli; Interference (Learning); Color; Missouri + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeitstest; Gedächtnis; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Auditive Stimulation; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe
Abstract	Dividing attention (DA) between a memory task and a secondary task results in deficits in memory performance across a wide array of memory tasks, but these effects are larger when DA occurs at encoding than at retrieval. Although some research suggests the effects of DA are equal for item and associative memory, thereby suggesting that DA disrupts all components of an episode to the same extent, there have been relatively few studies directly examining the effects of DA on multiple features of the same episode. In addition, no studies have examined how DA may affect the stochastic dependency between multiple source dimensions of a given episode, which is central to theories of source memory, and episodic memory in general. Thus, in two experiments, we used a multidimensional source memory task--examining memory for items and multiple source features--and separately investigated how DA at encoding or at retrieval affects item memory, source memory, and joint source retrieval. DA was manipulated at encoding in Experiment 1 and at retrieval in Experiment 2. Whereas DA at encoding disrupted item memory, as well as source memory and source-source binding, though to a lesser extent, DA at retrieval did not affect any of these outcomes. Results are discussed in terms of levels of binding and the role of attention in encoding and retrieval of bounded episodic representations. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01