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Abrahamse, Elger L.; Duthoo, Wout; Notebaert, Wim; Risko, Evan F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Proportion congruency effects represent hallmark phenomena in current theorizing about cognitive control. This is based on the notion that proportion congruency determines the relative levels of attention to relevant and irrelevant information in conflict tasks. However, little empirical evidence exists that uniquely supports such an attention…
Descriptors: Attention, Experimental Psychology, Influences, Prediction
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Hourihan, Kathleen L.; Taylor, Tracy L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
On the premise that committing a word to memory is a type of covert action capable of being stopped, this study merged an item-method directed forgetting paradigm with a stop signal paradigm. The primary dependent measure was immediate recall. Indicating that participants were able to countermand the default instruction to remember, there was an…
Descriptors: Models, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology), Memory