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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > attentional boost effect
phenomenon > attention phenomenon > attentional boost effect

Preferred term

attentional boost effect  

Definition(s)

  • "a phenomenon in which the detection of targets in a secondary task enhances encoding of co-occurring stimuli." (Mulligan et al., 2023).

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Related concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • ABE

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Mulligan, N. W., Spataro, P., & West, J. T. (2023). Memory and attention: A double dissociation between memory encoding and memory retrieval. Cognition, 238, 105509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105509

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Swallow, K., & Jiang, Y. (2013). Attentional load and attentional boost: A review of data and theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00274

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Swallow, K. M., & Jiang, Y. V. (2010). The Attentional Boost Effect: Transient increases in attention to one task enhance performance in a second task. Cognition, 115(1), 118–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.003

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Swallow, K. M., & Jiang, Y. V. (2011). The role of timing in the attentional boost effect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(2), 389–404. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-010-0045-y

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Has study method(s)

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Hutmacher, F., & Kuhbandner, C. (2020, October 26). Does the attentional boost effect depend on the intentionality of encoding? doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/6FEJ2
  • • Mulligan, N. (2021, November 10). Attentional Boost Manipulation, Encoding and Retrieval. https://osf.io/dpaxy
  • • Mulligan, N. (2023, May 25). Attentional Boost Manipulation, Encoding and Retrieval. https://osf.io/dpaxy
  • • Spataro, P. (2022, March 17). Exploring the roles of distinctiveness and performance anticipation in the Attentional Boost Effect. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/U5DKG
  • • Toh, Y. N., & Lee, V. G. (2021, November 10). Response, rather than target detection, triggers the attentional boost effect in visual search. https://osf.io/9b6au
  • • Toh, Y. N., & Lee, V. G. (2022, April 26). Why did context memory for words escape the attentional boost effect? https://osf.io/e9cga
  • • Toh, Y. N., & Lee, V. G. (2022, April 2). Target detection and response both contribute to the attentional boost effect. https://osf.io/2nxmh

Editorial note

  • For example, participants learn faces while performing a target detection task (pressing a button when a blue square appears next to a face and not pressing the button when the square is of another color). Long-term memory for faces is improved when they are encoded with the target (blue square).

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