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  • Neuroscience
  • Memory Research

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  • Processing fluency, the ease with which information is processed, is a key factor in recognition memory.
  • Attentional cueing can manipulate processing fluency, potentially influencing memory judgments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how attentional cueing, specifically spatial attention manipulation, affects processing fluency and subsequent recognition memory.
  • To determine if unintentional source monitoring of fluency influences recognition decisions.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a Remember/Know recognition test.
  • Spatial attention was manipulated using arrow cues predicting (congruent) or not predicting (incongruent) stimulus location.

Main Results:

  • False recognition, particularly familiarity-based, increased in the incongruent condition.
  • False recognition decreased in the congruent condition.
  • These effects suggest participants attributed fluency changes to the attentional cue.

Conclusions:

  • Stimulus-irrelevant attentional cueing can unintentionally bias recognition memory.
  • The source of processing fluency is considered, affecting memory judgments.