Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking.

ABSTRACT: With the explosion of digital media and technologies, scholars, educators and the public have become increasingly vocal about the role that an 'attention economy' has in our lives¹. The rise of the current digital culture coincides with longstanding scientific questions about why humans sometimes remember and sometimes forget, and why some individuals remember better than others^2-6. Here we examine whether spontaneous attention lapses-in the moment^7-12, across individuals^13-15 and as a function of everyday media multitasking^16-19-negatively correlate with remembering. Electroencephalography and pupillometry measures of attention^20,21 were recorded as eighty young adults (mean age, 21.7 years) performed a goal-directed episod

SUBMITTER: Madore KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7644608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature