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Kara N. Moore; Blake L. Nesmith; Dara U. Zwemer; Chenxin Yu – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
People perform poorly at sighting missing and wanted persons in simulated searches due to attention and face recognition failures. We manipulated participants' expectations of encountering a target person and the within-person variability of the targets' photographs studied in a laboratory-based and a field-based prospective person memory task. We…
Descriptors: Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Simulation, Attention Control
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Meyerhoff, Hauke S.; Grinschgl, Sandra; Papenmeier, Frank; Gilbert, Sam J. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
The cognitive load of many everyday life tasks exceeds known limitations of short-term memory. One strategy to compensate for information overload is cognitive offloading which refers to the externalization of cognitive processes such as reminder setting instead of memorizing. There appears to be remarkable variance in offloading behavior between…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Task Analysis, Reliability, Short Term Memory