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Distractor presentation

Exposure

1 paper2 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.

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  • Humans1

Outcomes

2

Reaction time

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Distractor presentation increases reaction time in humans.

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

    Human trialdistractors presented during working memory encodinglow-salience distractors

    Older Adults are Impaired by Distractors Presented During Working Memory Encoding

    Preprint10 Oct 2025

Working memory accuracy

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Distractor presentation decreases working memory accuracy in humans.

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

    Human trialdistractors presented during working memory encodinglow-salience distractors

    Older Adults are Impaired by Distractors Presented During Working Memory Encoding

    Preprint10 Oct 2025

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