Naslov
When is retrieval protected?: Divided attention in different memory tasks

Autori
Vranić, Andrea

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of the 16th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology / - , 2009

Skup
16th Conference of European Society of Cognitive Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Kraków, Poljska, 02.05.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
episodic memory; semantic memory; divided attention; transfer-appropriate processing

Sažetak
Divided attention at encoding is shown to reduce memory performance significantly, whereas division of attention during retrieval of episodic memories affects memory performance only minimally. This relative immunity of episodic retrieval is offset by a cost, as measured by the concurrent secondary task. Less is known on the effects a division of attention might have on the semantic retrieval. This experiment was conducted with the aim of further exploring the relative immunity and the attentional costs associated with what seems to be obligatory retrieval processes. A componential analysis, as introduced by Naveh-Benjamin et al. (2000), was employed to assess attentional demands of four different retrieval tasks: two tapping the episodic and two tapping the semantic memory system. Furthermore, within each of these „system tasks“, one task was data-driven and one was conceptually-driven, as proposed by the transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) approach. Our results show differential attentional demands of the four tasks used and further validate the pattern of 3 major retrieval types proposed by recent studies. These findings are interpreted within the TAP framework.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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