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http://dx.doi.org/10.14695/KJSOS.2022.25.2.3

Effect of Distractor Memorability on Target Memory Performance  

Jeong, Su Keun (충북대학교 심리학과)
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Science of Emotion and Sensibility / v.25, no.2, 2022 , pp. 3-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
Memorability is an indicator of how well a stimulus can be remembered. Studies on memorability have shown that stimulus memorability cannot be explained by the perceptual and semantic properties of a stimulus, suggesting that memorability is an intrinsic property of a stimulus. Though real-world scenes almost always contain multiple objects, previous studies on memorability have mainly tested memory performance using a single stimulus. In the current study, we investigated how multiple stimuli with different levels of memorability interact with each other. Participants were asked to remember a high or low memorability target presented with a high or low memorability distractor in the encoding block. Participants' memory accuracy was measured by a sensitivity index in the testing block. Results showed that a high memorability target was easier to remember. However, the distractor memorability level did not modulate this target memorability effect. The current results support previous studies that showed a highly memorable stimulus does not automatically induce bottom-up attentional shifts.
Keywords
Attentional Selection; Distractor; Memorability; Memory; Target;
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