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Distraction

Exposure

2 papers5 findings

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Labs are independent when their papers share no last author and no institution.

  • 2 independent labs in 1 country
  • Humans2

Outcomes

5

Actor memory and action memory

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Distraction impairs actor memory and action memory in humans.

    “Distraction impacted both actor memory and action memory, suggesting that distraction interfered with the deployment of attention to these event features.”

    Human trial

    QUANTIFYING ASSOCIATIVE AND ATTENTIONAL INFLUENCES ON MEMORY FOR EVENTS

    GSA 2024 abstract31 Dec 2024

Binding of actors with actions

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Distraction impairs binding of actors with actions in humans.

    “Distraction also impacted binding when only two actors performed all of the actions, suggesting that distraction interfered with strategic encoding of actor/action pairings in this condition.”

    Human trialtwo actors performed all actions

    QUANTIFYING ASSOCIATIVE AND ATTENTIONAL INFLUENCES ON MEMORY FOR EVENTS

    GSA 2024 abstract31 Dec 2024

Reaction time

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Distraction increases reaction time in humans.

    “low-salience distractors presented during encoding produced robust declines in accuracy and increases in reaction time.”

    Human trialdistractors presented during encodinglow-salience distractors

    Older Adults are Impaired by Distractors Presented During Working Memory Encoding

    Preprint19 Nov 2024

Working memory accuracy

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Distraction decreases working memory accuracy in humans.

    “low-salience distractors presented during encoding produced robust declines in accuracy and increases in reaction time.”

    Human trialdistractors presented during encodinglow-salience distractors

    Older Adults are Impaired by Distractors Presented During Working Memory Encoding

    Preprint19 Nov 2024

Working memory performance

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Distraction impairs working memory performance in humans.

    “older adults were more vulnerable to distractors presented during encoding than during maintenance.”

    Human trialdistractors presented during encoding compared with maintenance

    Older Adults are Impaired by Distractors Presented During Working Memory Encoding

    Preprint19 Nov 2024

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