Interfering with remembering and knowing: Effects of divided attention at retrieval

Skinner, Erin I.; Fernandes, Myra A.

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.05.001

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“…The general findings of the present research can be compared to those from research on the effect of attentional manipulations during encoding and retrieval in the DRM and in other list-learning paradigms (e.g., Dehon, 2006;Otgaar, Peters & Howe, 2012;Pérez-Mata, Read & Diges, 2002;Seamon, Goodkind, Dumey, Dick, Aufseeser, Strickland & Fung, 2003;Skinner & Fernandes, 2008). For example, Knott and Dewhurst (2007b, Exp.…”

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“…2) found that divided attention during retrieval led to an increase in remember responses for critical lures as compared to a full-attention condition, in that participants simply completed the recognition test without any additional cognitive load (for similar patterns of results, but in different paradigms, see Dudukovic, DuBrow & Wagner, 2009;Knott & Dewhurst, 2007a, Exp. 2;Skinner & Fernandes, 2008). 2 Peters, Jelicic, Gorski, Sijstermans, Giesbrecht and Merckelbach (2008) crossed a forewarning manipulation with a divided-attention manipulation and found 2 The relationship is less clear between divided attention during encoding and both false recall and false recognition.…”

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Working memory differences in illusory recollection of critical lures

Bixter

Daniel

2013

Mem Cogn

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In the present experiments, we explored the relationship between individual differences in working memory (WM) capacity and susceptibility to false recognitions and their accompanying subjective experiences. Deese/RoedigerMcDermott (DRM) associative lists were used to elicit false memories, and remember/know judgments were used to measure the recollective experiences accompanying recognition decisions. We found that WM capacity was related to false recognitions of nonpresented critical lures and to the proportion of remember responses given to critical lures, such that higher WM capacity was associated with lower falserecognition rates and with lower proportions of remember responses. Importantly, these WM differences were only found when participants were forewarned about the nature of the DRM task prior to encoding (Exp. 1). When the forewarning was absent, WM capacity was not related to false recognitions or to the proportion of remember responses given to critical lures (Exp. 2). These results support the controlledattention view of WM and suggest that subjective experiences of falsely recognized lures fluctuate as a function of WM capacity.

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Working memory differences in illusory recollection of critical lures

Bixter

Daniel

2013

Mem Cogn

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“…Of late, this distinction has also come to play a prominent role in the study of aging (e.g., Anderson, Jennings, Cabeza, Ebert, Grady, & Graham, 2008;Dennis, Kim, & Cabeza, 2007;Parks, 2007;Skinner, & Fernandes, 2008;Toth & Parks, 2006) and cognitive impairment (e.g., Reyna & Mills, 2007;Schacter & Slotnick, 2004;Yonelinas, 2002). The picture in the memory development literature is quite different.…”

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Trichotomous processes in early memory development, aging, and neurocognitive impairment: A unified theory.

Brainerd¹,

Reyna²,

Howe³

2009

Psychological Review

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link IN PRESS: Psychological Review AbstractOne of the most extensively investigated topics in the adult memory literature, dual memory processes, has had virtually no impact on the study of early memory development. We remove the key obstacles to such research by formulating a trichotomous theory of recall that combines the traditional dual processes of recollection and familiarity with a reconstruction process. The theory is then embedded in a hidden Markov model that measures all three processes with low-burden tasks that are appropriate for even young children. These techniques are applied to a large corpus of developmental studies of recall, yielding stable findings about the emergence of dual memory processes between childhood and young adulthood and generating tests of many theoretical predictions. The techniques are extended to the study of healthy aging and to the memory sequelae of common forms of cognitive impairment, resulting in a theoretical framework that is unified over four major domains of memory research: early development, mainstream adult research, aging, and cognitive impairment. The techniques are also extended to recognition, creating a unified dual-process framework for recall and recognition.Keywords: memory development, dual memory processes, aging, cognitive impairment, hidden Markov models Trichotomous Processes in Early Memory Development, Aging, and Cognitive Impairment:A Unified Theory This paper has three objectives. The first is to resolve a fundamental problem in memory development research; the second is to apply that solution to a large corpus of developmental studies of recall; and the third is to extend the solution to memory changes that occur during healthy aging and in certain forms of cognitive impairment. The problem in question is the scant impact that dual-process distinctions have had on the study of early (child-to-young-adult) memory development. The result is a dramatic disparity in knowledge about dual memory processes in adults, which is vast, versus knowledge about how those processes first evolve, which is thin and inconsistent. Our solution, as will be seen, is (a) to propose a trichotomous theory of recall that subsumes traditional dual-process distinctions, (b) to implement that theory in a low-burden family of tasks that are appropriate for even very young children, and (c) to show that a new mathematical model of those tasks can be used to measure the development of trichotomous memory processes and to test theoretical predictions about them. Concerning the second objective, we show that an attractive feature of this solution is that a developmental data base exists that can be analyzed with the model, thereby closing the gap in knowledge about early memory development. With respect to the third objective, unlike early development, the study of memory changes during aging and in cognitive impairment have been strong...

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“…They showed that DA has a stronger effect on memory performance when retrieval is more dependent on strategic processes mediated by the prefrontal cortex (an area critical for recollection-based recognition), and on associative cue-dependent processes like source memory. More recently, Skinner and Fernandes (2008) found further evidence for the selective effect of DA on Remember responses and in addition showed that DA at retrieval may lead to more Remember false-alarms. Ageing-studies also have examined the role of attention in recollectionbased retrieval.…”

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Divided attention selectively impairs memory for self-relevant information

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Citation: Turk, D. J., Brady-van den Bos, M., Collard, P., Gillespie-Smith, K., Conway, M.A. & Cunningham, S.J. (2013). Divided attention selectively impairs memory for self-relevant information. Memory and Cognition, 41(4), pp. 503-510. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0279-0 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent AbstractInformation that is relevant to self tends to be remembered more than information relating to other people, but the role of attention in eliciting this 'selfreference effect' is unclear. The present study assessed the importance of attention using an ownership paradigm, which requires participants to encode items under conditions of imagined ownership by themselves or another participant. Previous work has established that this paradigm elicits a robust self-reference effect, with more 'self-owned' items being remembered than 'other-owned' items. Attentional resource availability was manipulated using divided attention tasks at encoding (Expt.1) and during a subsequent Remember-Know recognition test (Expt. 2). A significant self-reference effect in Remember responses emerged under full attention conditions, but dividing attention at either encoding or test eliminated the memory advantage for self-owned items. These findings are discussed in relation to the nature of self-referential cognition and the importance of attentional resource input at both encoding and retrieval in the creation and manifestation of the self-reference effect in memory.

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Interfering with remembering and knowing: Effects of divided attention at retrieval

Cited by 37 publications

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Working memory differences in illusory recollection of critical lures

Working memory differences in illusory recollection of critical lures

Trichotomous processes in early memory development, aging, and neurocognitive impairment: A unified theory.

Divided attention selectively impairs memory for self-relevant information

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