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Direct linkWon, Bo-Yeong; Jiang, Yuhong V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Recent empirical and theoretical work has depicted a close relationship between visual attention and visual working memory. For example, rehearsal in spatial working memory depends on spatial attention, whereas adding a secondary spatial working memory task impairs attentional deployment in visual search. These findings have led to the proposal…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability
Russo, J. Edward; Carlson, Kurt A.; Meloy, Margaret G.; Yong, Kevyn – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Why, during a decision between new alternatives, do people bias their evaluations of information to support a tentatively preferred option? The authors test the following 3 decision process goals as the potential drivers of such distortion of information: (a) to reduce the effort of evaluating new information, (b) to increase the separation…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluative Thinking, Prompting, Objectives
