The Relationship between Self-Related Advantages in Memory and Attention
Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Presenting an item with self-relevant vs. other-relevant information can produce a memory advantage, even in the absence of a task demand to evaluate the item’s self-relevancy. Termed the incidental self-reference effect (iSRE), this self-memory advantage has been assumed to arise due to automatic/preferential attention to self-relevant vs. other-relevant information. Yet, this assumption has not been empirically … Read more