Abstract

SBICIGO, Juliana Burges; JANCZURA, Gerson Américo  and  DE SALLES, Jerusa Fumagalli. Effects of Divided Attention in Repetition Priming. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.1, pp.1-16. ISSN 1983-8220.  https://doi.org/10.36298/gerais2020130102.

This article aims to investigate possible effects of divided attention on repetition priming from a selective review of the literature. Studies were included if they utilized perceptual and/or conceptual priming tasks, in which the division of attention was performed during encoding or retrieval. In general, the results suggested that perceptual and conceptual priming were affected by divided attention during encoding. This effect occurred when the secondary task (or distractor task) demanded higher levels of attention, requiring frequent task responses and it was presented simultaneously to the memory target stimulus. The few studies investigating retrieval showed that perceptual and conceptual priming are not sensitive to divided attention. Therefore, implicit memory processes may require attentional resources in the encoding. Theoretical implications of the results are discussed.

Keywords : Priming; Dual task; Implicit memory; Attention; Priming; Dual task; Encoding.

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