The attentional boost effect facilitates the encoding of contextual details: New evidence with verbal materials and a modified recognition task.

ABSTRACT: In the attentional boost effect (ABE), words or images encoded with to-be-responded targets are later recalled better than words or images encoded with to-be-ignored distractors. The ABE has been repeatedly demonstrated to improve item memory, whereas evidence concerning contextual memory is mixed, with studies showing both significant and null results. The present three experiments investigated whether the ABE could enhance contextual memory when using a recognition task that allowed participants to reinstate the original study context, by simultaneously manipulating the nature of the instructions provided at encoding. Participants studied a sequence of colored words paired with target (gray circles) or distractor (gray squares) stimuli, under the instructions to remember either the words

SUBMITTER: Spataro P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113617 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature