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- Title
Some young adults hyper-bind too: Attentional control relates to individual differences in hyper-binding.
- Authors
Davis, Emily E.; Tehrani, Edyta K.; Campbell, Karen L.
- Abstract
Hyper-binding – the erroneous encoding of target and distractor information into associative pairs in memory – has been described as a unique age effect caused by declines in attentional control. Previous work has found that, on average, young adults do not hyper-bind. However, if hyper-binding is caused by reduced attentional control, then young adults with poor attention regulation should also show evidence of hyper-binding. We tested this question with an individual differences approach, using a battery of attentional control tasks and relating this to individual differences in hyper-binding. Participants (N = 121) completed an implicit associative memory test measuring memory for both target-distractor (i.e., hyper-binding) and target-target pairs, followed by a series of tasks measuring attentional control. Our results show that on average, young adults do not hyper-bind, but as predicted, those with poor attentional control show a larger hyper-binding effect than those with good attentional control. Exploratory analyses also suggest that individual differences in attentional control relate to susceptibility to interference at retrieval. These results support the hypothesis that hyper-binding in older adults is due to age-related declines in attentional control, and demonstrate that hyper-binding may be an issue for any individual with poor attentional control, regardless of age.
- Subjects
ATTENTION control; YOUNG adults; IMPLICIT memory; INDIVIDUAL differences; MEMORY testing
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 4, p1809
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13423-024-02464-w