Attentional influences on learning under unpredicted situations Ortiz Tudela, Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Castillo, Juan Jiménez García, Luis Universidad de Granada. Psicología Influencia Atención Long-term effects of cognitive conflict on performance are not as well understood as immediate effects. We used a change detection task to explore long-term consequences of cognitive conflict by manipulating the congruity between a changing object and a background scene. According to conflict-based accounts of memory formation, incongruent trials (e.g., a cow on the street), in spite of hindering immediate performance, should promote stronger encoding than congruent trials (e.g., a cow on a prairie). Surprisingly, across three experiments we show that semantic incongruity actually impairs remembering of the information presented during scene processing. This set of results is incompatible with the frequently accepted hypothesis of conflicttriggered learning. Rather, we discuss the present data and other studies previously reported in the literature in the light of two much older hypotheses of memory formation: the desirable difficulty and the levels of processing principles. 2018-06-20T11:47:41Z 2018-06-20T11:47:41Z 2018 2018-02-26 doctoral thesis Ortiz Tudela, Francisco Javier. Attentional influences on learning under unpredicted situations. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2018. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/51588] 9788491638124 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/51588 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Universidad de Granada