The attentional boost effect and perceptual degradation: Assessing the influence of attention on recognition memory LaPointe, Mitchell R. P. Rosner, Tamara M. Ortiz Tudela, Francisco Javier Lorentz, Lisa Milliken, Bruce Attention Recognition memory Attentional boost effect Divided attention Degradation effect Supplementary material The Supplementary material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg. 2022.1024498/full#supplementary-material Funding Financial support for this study was provided by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant awarded to BM (RGPIN-2019-07021) and open access to the published study was supported by funds from Goethe Universitaet awarded to JO. Researchers have suggested that the recognition memory effects resulting from two separate attentional manipulations—attentional boost and perceptual degradation—may share a common cause; namely a transient up-regulation of attention at the time of encoding that leads to enhanced memory performance at the time of retrieval. Prior research has demonstrated that inducing two similar transient shifts of attention simultaneously produces redundant performance in memory. In the present study, we sought to evaluate the combined influence of the attentional boost and perceptual degradation on recognition memory. If these two effects share a common cause, then we ought to observe a redundancy in memory performance, such that these two factors interact. Yet, across four experiments we fail to observe such a redundancy in recognition memory. We evaluate these results using the limited resource model of attention and speculate on how combining transient shifts of attention may produce redundant memory performance in the one case, but non-redundant performance in the other case. 2022-12-21T12:57:31Z 2022-12-21T12:57:31Z 2022-11-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article LaPointe MRP, Rosner TM, Ortiz-Tudela J, Lorentz L and Milliken B (2022) The attentional boost effect and perceptual degradation: Assessing the influence of attention on recognition memory. Front. Psychol. 13:1024498. [doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1024498] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78588 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1024498 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional Frontiers Media