Attribute amnesia reflects a lack of memory consolidation for attended information

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
Hui Chen, Brad Wyble

Abstract

A recently reported phenomenon, termed attribute amnesia, challenged the commonly held belief that attention plays the determining role in controlling how information is remembered, by showing that participants fail to remember a specific attended attribute (e.g., the target-defining color), even when they had just used that attribute to perform a task (Chen & Wyble, 2015a). The main purpose of the present study sought to better understand the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. The results revealed that attribute amnesia was nearly eliminated once participants were forced to store and hold attended information for a brief time, suggesting that this amnesia effect most likely reflects a lack of memory consolidation for an attended attribute that had been processed to some certain level. In addition, we demonstrated that the effect is not particular to the use of location report or the repetition of targets. One additional finding is that amnesia was markedly absent for location memory, indicating an important difference between memories for locations and attributes such as color or identity. (PsycINFO Database Record

Citations

Feb 15, 2018·Psychological Science·Hui ChenBrad Wyble
Nov 22, 2017·PeerJ·Weijia Chen, Piers D L Howe
Apr 11, 2018·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·Timothy J RickerPierre Barrouillet
Jan 17, 2020·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP·Quan GuZaifeng Gao
Apr 8, 2017·Attention, Perception & Psychophysics·Garrett SwanHui Chen
Feb 26, 2020·Attention, Perception & Psychophysics·Sabine BornDirk Kerzel
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May 25, 2021·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Blaire Dube, Julie D Golomb
Jun 9, 2021·Memory & Cognition·Ryan E O'DonnellBrad Wyble
Jun 15, 2021·Perception·Piers Douglas Lionel Howe, Serene Bee Wen Lee
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