Remembering more than you can say: Re-examining “amnesia” of attended attributes

Attribute amnesia (AA) describes a phenomenon whereby observers fail a surprise memory test which asks them to report an attribute they had just attended and used to fulfil a task goal. This finding has cast doubt on the prominent theory that attention results in encoding into working memory (WM), t...

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Main Authors: Geoffrey W. Harrison, Melissa Kang, Daryl E. Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Acta Psychologica
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691821000159