Cognitive Daily: Memories, attention, and intention - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Dec 07
  

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  • When the students were looking for animals in the printed words, they remembered more of the animal words they heard compared to plant words they had heard (A separate group of students was asked to look for plant names, with the equivalent result). It appears that we remember more of things in the background when they are related to what we intend to do. In another experiment, the same result wasfound when asking students to look for breakfast foods.
  • When searching for animals wasn't required during the actual task they performed, they didn't remember more animal names. Marsh's team argues that the effect they observed in their first experiment could not be due to priming, and instead must be related to the observers' intentions.

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