The effects of divided attention at encoding on specific and gist-based associative episodic memory.

ABSTRACT: Effects of divided attention (DA) during encoding on later memory performance are widely documented. However, the precise nature of these effects on underlying memory representations and subsequent retrieval processes has not been thoroughly investigated. Here, we examined whether DA at encoding would disrupt young adults' ability to remember associations in episodic memory at highly specific levels of representation (i.e., verbatim memory), or whether the effects of DA extend also to gist memory for associations. Two groups of participants (one under full attention, one under DA) studied face-scene pairs. The DA group simultaneously completed an auditory choice reaction-time task during encoding. Following either a short or long delay, participants were tested on their ability to discrimi

SUBMITTER: Greene NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216590 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature