The Relationship between Attention and Memory Retrieval
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v5i.2913Keywords:
Attention Demand, Divided Attention, Memory RetrievalAbstract
Researchers were trying to explore the relationship between attention and memory retrieval in many different methodologies. This paper aims to clarify the complex relationship between attention and memory. Most early research from the 1900s suggests that memory retrieval is an automatic process that does not require attention. Moreover, in line with intuition, research about implicit memory also suggest that it is an automatic process. However, recent research about explicit memory retrieval suggests otherwise. Neuro-imaging research found that the region that activates during memory retrieval also activates during visual attention. Animal research about attention demand and spatial memory retrieval showed that attention could help memory encoding and retrieval. By studying individuals with attention deficits, it can conclude that attention is crucial for suppressing memory retrieval. Furthermore, behavioral research suggests that divided attention can impair memory retrieval. Thus, memory retrieval is not an automatic process.
Downloads
References
Oberauer, K. Working Memory and Attention – A Conceptual Analysis and Review. Journal of Cognition, 2019, 2(1), 36.
Frankland, P. W., Josselyn, S. A., & Köhler, S. The neurobiological foundation of memory retrieval. Nature Neuroscience, 2019, 22(10), 1576–1585.
Baddeley, A., Lewis, V., Eldridge, M., & Thomson, N. Attention and retrieval from long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1984, 113(4), 518–540.
Keele, S. W. Attention demands of memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972, 93(2), 245–248.
Lozito, J. P., & Mulligan, N. W. Exploring the role of attention during implicit memory retrieval. Journal of Memory and Language, 2010, 63(3), 387–399.
Giesbrecht, B., Kingstone, A., Handy, T. C., Hopfinger, J. B., & Mangun, G. R. Functional neuroimaging of attention. 2006, In Handbook of functional neuroimaging of cognition, 2nd ed (pp. 85–111). MIT Press.
Cabeza, R. Functional neuroimaging of episodic memory retrieval. 2000, In Memory, consciousness, and the brain: The Tallinn Conference (pp. 76–90). Psychology Press.
Cabeza, R., Dolcos, F., Prince, S. E., Rice, H. J., Weissman, D. H., & Nyberg, L. Attention-related activity during episodic memory retrieval: A cross-function fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 2003, 41(3), 390–399.
O’Keefe, J., & Nadel, L. 1978, The hippocampus as a cognitive map. Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press.
Muzzio, I. A., Kentros, C., & Kandel, E. What is remembered? Role of attention on the encoding and retrieval of hippocampal representations: Attentional modulation of hippocampal representations. The Journal of Physiology, 2009, 587(12), 2837–2854.
Depue, B. E., Burgess, G. C., Willcutt, E. G., Ruzic, L., & Banich, M. T. Inhibitory control of memory retrieval and motor processing associated with the right lateral prefrontal cortex: Evidence from deficits in individuals with ADHD. Neuropsychologia, 2010, 48(13), 3909–3917.
Depue, B. E., Curran, T., & Banich, M. T. Prefrontal Regions Orchestrate Suppression of Emotional Memories via a Two-Phase Process. Science, 2007, 317(5835), 215–219.
Jacoby, L. L. A process dissociation framework: Separating automatic from intentional uses of memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 1991, 30(5), 513–541.
Craik, F. I. M., Eftekhari, E., & Binns, M. A. Effects of divided attention at encoding and retrieval: Further data. Memory & Cognition, 2018, 46(8), 1263–1277.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
How to Cite
