Memory Performance for Everyday Motivational and Neutral Objects Is Dissociable from Attention.

ABSTRACT: Episodic memory is typically better for items coupled with monetary reward or punishment during encoding. It is yet unclear whether memory is also enhanced for everyday objects with appetitive or aversive values learned through a lifetime of experience, and to what extent episodic memory enhancement for motivational and neutral items is attributable to attention. In a first experiment, we investigated attention to everyday motivational objects using eye-tracking during free-viewing and subsequently tested episodic memory using a remember/know procedure. Attention was directed more to aversive stimuli, as evidenced by longer viewing durations, whereas recollection was higher for both appetitive and aversive objects. In the second experiment, we manipulated the visual contrast of neutral obj

SUBMITTER: Schomaker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5483478 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature