Despite increased demands on attention, responding to a target in a detection task enhances memory for concurrently presented images and words. First documented in 2010, this attentional boost effect phenomenon has been the subject of a growing amount of research. In a new review paper, titled “Grounding the Attentional Boost Effect in Events and the Efficient Brain”, Swallow, Broitman, Riley, and Turker provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the attentional boost effect, explicitly compare it to the effects of event segmentation on memory, and describe several ways phasic locus coeruleus activity could influence episodic encoding.
New review paper on the attentional boost effect!
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