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Direct linkSpataro, Pietro; Mulligan, Neil W.; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Distraction during encoding has long been known to disrupt later memory performance. Contrary to this long-standing result, we show that detecting an infrequent target in a dual-task paradigm actually improves memory encoding for a concurrently presented word, above and beyond the performance reached in the full-attention condition. This absolute…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Attention
