The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development

Adults are slower at locating targets in naturalistic scenes containing a social distractor compared to an equally salient non-social distractor, and their subsequent memory for targets in social scenes is poorer. Therefore, adults' social biases affect not only attention, but also their memory...

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Main Authors: Doherty, B, Fraser, A, Nobre, A, Scerif, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019