How attention influence memory encoding? In Jackie Kim’s Honors Biology Thesis (co-advised with Dr. Adam Broitman), she investigated this question by examining components of scalp EEG associated with external information processing and successful memory encoding. One such component, gamma band power, is typically greater early in an encoding task (like one that asks participants to remember words in a list so they can later recall them) than later in an encoding task (the gamma primacy effect). Jackie’s work demonstrated that the gamma primacy effect was reduced under dual-task relative to single task performance. Congratulations Jackie!
Congratulations to Jackie Kim!
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