Browsing Psychology, Department of by Subject "Memory"
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The Effects of Feature-Based and Memory-Driven Attention on Appearance
(2011-09-30)Recent evidence suggests that, in addition to improving performance, spatial attention alters the perceptual experience of visual stimuli. We investigated whether two other forms of attention – feature-based attention, and ... -
The Effects of Self-Guided Meditation and Napping on Memory Consolidation in Humans
Numerous studies have reported that, compared to an equivalent period of wakefulness, post-training sleep (overnight or daytime naps) benefits memory consolidation (Diekelmann & Born, 2010; Mednick, Nakayama, & Stickgold, ... -
Neuroimaging predictors of creativity in healthy adults
(Elsevier, 2019-10-22)Neuroimaging has revealed numerous neural predictors of individual differences in creativity; however, with most of these identified in only one study, sometimes involving very small samples, their reliability is uncertain. ... -
The Role of Napping in the Consolidation of Clinically-Relevant Information in Non-Depressed and Depressed Participants
The hypothesis that sleep may have beneficial effects on memory consolidation has been widely reported for many years (Jenkins & Dallenbach, 1924; Van Ormer, 1933; Fowler, Sullivan, & Ekstrand, 1973). Since then, these ... -
Sensorimotor Working Memory Capacity Limits
(2016-10-05)Two novel studies examining the capacity and characteristics of working memory for object weights, experienced through lifting, were completed. Both studies employed visually identical objects of varying weight and focused ... -
Spatio-Temporal Interactions in Immediate Serial Recall
(2007-10-16)In an immediate serial recall task, participants are asked to recall lists of items in order. In the Hebb repeating-list variant of the task, subjects are read a series of lists, and every third list is repeated. Performance ... -
The Wandering Mind: An Examination of the Predictors and Consequences of Mind Wandering
It has been reported that when listening to a lecture, the average student spends approximately one third of lecture time thinking about things unrelated to the lecture material (Szpunar et al., 2013). With that said, ...