We investigated the psychological mechanism of survival processing advantage from the perspective of false memory in two experiments.Using a DRM paradigm in combination with analysis based on signal detection theory,w...We investigated the psychological mechanism of survival processing advantage from the perspective of false memory in two experiments.Using a DRM paradigm in combination with analysis based on signal detection theory,we were able to separately examine participants’utilization of verbatim representation and gist representation.Specifically,in Experiment 1,participants rated semantically related words in a survival scenario for a survival condition but rated pleasantness of words in the same DRM lists for a non-survival control condition.The results showed that participants demonstrated more gist processing in the survival condition than in the pleasantness condition;however,the degree of item-specific processing in the two encoding conditions did not significantly differ.In Experiment 2,the control task was changed to a category rating task,in which participants were asked to make category ratings of words in the category lists.We found that the survival condition involved more item-specific processing than did the category condition,but we found no significant difference between the two encoding conditions at the level of gist processing.Overall,our study demonstrates that survival processing can simultaneously promote gist and item-specific representations.When the control tasks only promoted either item-specific representation or gist representation,memory advantages of survival processing occurred.展开更多
Selective attention has been viewed as a dual- process mechanism, that is, exciting targets and inhibiting distractors. Most early studies concentrated mainly on the target-excitation, whereas recent investigations be...Selective attention has been viewed as a dual- process mechanism, that is, exciting targets and inhibiting distractors. Most early studies concentrated mainly on the target-excitation, whereas recent investigations began to pay more attention to the inhibitory selective attention mecha-nism. A measure named negative priming (NP) was exten-sively employed to probe into the inhibitory processes. The Houghton and Tipper Model put forward a notion: the inhi-bition that feeds back to the distractor is reactive. That means, the level of inhibition is determined by the activation state of the distractor. Distractors that are more salient and intrude into the control of action receive greater inhibitory feedbacks than less salient distractors. Because increasing attention to an object would enhance the early processing of this object, we thus hypothesized that augmenting the level of attention to a distractor might lead to a higher level of inhi-bition, revealed as a corresponding augmentation in the magnitude of NP effect. To test this assumption, an object- based identification task was then applied, and participants were asked to make the animate/inanimate categorization. Attention level was manipulated by varying the relative spa-tial locations of target and distractor (overlapped or sepa-rated). A reliable greater NP effect was found in the over-lapped than separated condition, indicating that distractors under the high-level attention condition (overlapped) got greater initial excitation, and then evoked greater subsequent inhibitory feedbacks, therefore resulting in a larger NP effect. These results provide direct evidence for the reactive inhibi-tion suggested by the Houghton and Tipper model. Mean-while a coincident greater positive priming (PP) effect was obtained under the overlapped than separated condition, which could be attributed to the higher level of target activa-tion in the overlapped condition. The covariation of NP and PP effects further confirmed that the way of our manipula-tion on attention level in this study was valid.展开更多
When a global moving pattern is superimposed on high-contrast stationary or slowly moving stimuli, the stimuli can be perceived as disappearing and reappearing alternately for periods of several sec- onds.This visual ...When a global moving pattern is superimposed on high-contrast stationary or slowly moving stimuli, the stimuli can be perceived as disappearing and reappearing alternately for periods of several sec- onds.This visual illusory phenomenon was named“motion-induced blindness”(MIB)in recent litera- ture.So far there is no consensus on the mechanism of MIB,especially on the role of attention in this phenomenon.To examine the effect of spatial attention on MIB,the present study manipulated the participants’spatial attention by asking them to respond to two targets simultaneously presented in bilateral visual fields(the divided-attention condition)or only respond to one of them(the fo- cused-attention condition).A central arrow was presented as an endogenous cue to index the target visual field in the focused-attention condition,while a point was presented instead in the di- vided-attention condition.The results show that the percentage of accumulated invisibility period was larger for the targets in the focused-attention condition than for those in the divided-attention condition. This effect of attention is significant in upper visual field(UVF)and left lower visual field(left LVF);that is,this effect shows a hemispheric asymmetry in LVF but not in UVF.Furthermore,the percentage of accumulated invisibility period was larger for targets in left LVF than for those in right LVF in the fo- cused-attention condition,but no hemispheric asymmetry was found in the divided-attention condition. In addition,the increased percentage of accumulated invisibility period in the focused-attention condi- tion originated merely in the enhancement of the mean phase duration of disappearance in LVF,while the disappearance occurred more frequently and lasted longer for each occurrence,which led to an increase in the total invisibility period,in the focused-than divided-attention condition in UVF.These results suggest that the modulation of spatial attention on MIB has different patterns in UVF and LVF.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31271202,30870763,J1103602)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(7093123)
文摘We investigated the psychological mechanism of survival processing advantage from the perspective of false memory in two experiments.Using a DRM paradigm in combination with analysis based on signal detection theory,we were able to separately examine participants’utilization of verbatim representation and gist representation.Specifically,in Experiment 1,participants rated semantically related words in a survival scenario for a survival condition but rated pleasantness of words in the same DRM lists for a non-survival control condition.The results showed that participants demonstrated more gist processing in the survival condition than in the pleasantness condition;however,the degree of item-specific processing in the two encoding conditions did not significantly differ.In Experiment 2,the control task was changed to a category rating task,in which participants were asked to make category ratings of words in the category lists.We found that the survival condition involved more item-specific processing than did the category condition,but we found no significant difference between the two encoding conditions at the level of gist processing.Overall,our study demonstrates that survival processing can simultaneously promote gist and item-specific representations.When the control tasks only promoted either item-specific representation or gist representation,memory advantages of survival processing occurred.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30100053 & 30470570).
文摘Selective attention has been viewed as a dual- process mechanism, that is, exciting targets and inhibiting distractors. Most early studies concentrated mainly on the target-excitation, whereas recent investigations began to pay more attention to the inhibitory selective attention mecha-nism. A measure named negative priming (NP) was exten-sively employed to probe into the inhibitory processes. The Houghton and Tipper Model put forward a notion: the inhi-bition that feeds back to the distractor is reactive. That means, the level of inhibition is determined by the activation state of the distractor. Distractors that are more salient and intrude into the control of action receive greater inhibitory feedbacks than less salient distractors. Because increasing attention to an object would enhance the early processing of this object, we thus hypothesized that augmenting the level of attention to a distractor might lead to a higher level of inhi-bition, revealed as a corresponding augmentation in the magnitude of NP effect. To test this assumption, an object- based identification task was then applied, and participants were asked to make the animate/inanimate categorization. Attention level was manipulated by varying the relative spa-tial locations of target and distractor (overlapped or sepa-rated). A reliable greater NP effect was found in the over-lapped than separated condition, indicating that distractors under the high-level attention condition (overlapped) got greater initial excitation, and then evoked greater subsequent inhibitory feedbacks, therefore resulting in a larger NP effect. These results provide direct evidence for the reactive inhibi-tion suggested by the Houghton and Tipper model. Mean-while a coincident greater positive priming (PP) effect was obtained under the overlapped than separated condition, which could be attributed to the higher level of target activa-tion in the overlapped condition. The covariation of NP and PP effects further confirmed that the way of our manipula-tion on attention level in this study was valid.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30470570 and 30100053)
文摘When a global moving pattern is superimposed on high-contrast stationary or slowly moving stimuli, the stimuli can be perceived as disappearing and reappearing alternately for periods of several sec- onds.This visual illusory phenomenon was named“motion-induced blindness”(MIB)in recent litera- ture.So far there is no consensus on the mechanism of MIB,especially on the role of attention in this phenomenon.To examine the effect of spatial attention on MIB,the present study manipulated the participants’spatial attention by asking them to respond to two targets simultaneously presented in bilateral visual fields(the divided-attention condition)or only respond to one of them(the fo- cused-attention condition).A central arrow was presented as an endogenous cue to index the target visual field in the focused-attention condition,while a point was presented instead in the di- vided-attention condition.The results show that the percentage of accumulated invisibility period was larger for the targets in the focused-attention condition than for those in the divided-attention condition. This effect of attention is significant in upper visual field(UVF)and left lower visual field(left LVF);that is,this effect shows a hemispheric asymmetry in LVF but not in UVF.Furthermore,the percentage of accumulated invisibility period was larger for targets in left LVF than for those in right LVF in the fo- cused-attention condition,but no hemispheric asymmetry was found in the divided-attention condition. In addition,the increased percentage of accumulated invisibility period in the focused-attention condi- tion originated merely in the enhancement of the mean phase duration of disappearance in LVF,while the disappearance occurred more frequently and lasted longer for each occurrence,which led to an increase in the total invisibility period,in the focused-than divided-attention condition in UVF.These results suggest that the modulation of spatial attention on MIB has different patterns in UVF and LVF.
