Attentional Biases Toward Spiders Do Not Modulate Retrieval.

ABSTRACT: When responding to stimuli, response and stimulus' features are thought to be integrated into a short episodic memory trace, an event file. Repeating any of its components causes retrieval of the whole event file leading to benefits for full repetitions and changes but interference for partial repetitions. These binding effects are especially pronounced if attention is allocated to certain features. We used attentional biases caused by spider stimuli, aiming to modulate the impact of attention on retrieval. Participants discriminated the orientation of bars repeating or changing their location in prime-probe sequences. Crucially, shortly before probe target onset, an image of a spider and that of a cub appeared at one position each - one of which was spatially congruent with the following

SUBMITTER: Schopper LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10658639 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature