Survival processing occupies the central bottleneck of cognitive processing: A psychological refractory period analysis.

Autor: Kroneisen M; Department of Psychology, Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau, Landau, Germany. kroneisen@uni-landau.de., Erdfelder E; Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany., Groß RM; Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany., Janczyk M; Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychonomic bulletin & review [Psychon Bull Rev] 2024 Feb; Vol. 31 (1), pp. 274-282. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 11.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-023-02340-z
Abstrakt: Words judged for relevance in a survival situation are remembered better than words judged for relevance in a nonsurvival context. This survival processing effect has been explained by selective tuning of human memory during evolution to process and retain information specifically relevant for survival. According to the richness-of-encoding hypothesis the survival processing effect arises from a domain-general mechanism-namely, a particularly rich and distinct form of encoding. This form of information processing is effortful and requires limited cognitive capacities. In our experiment, we used the well-established psychological refractory period framework in conjunction with the effect propagation logic to assess the role of central cognitive resources for the survival processing effect. Our data demonstrate that the survival memory advantage indeed relies on the capacity-limited central stage of cognitive processing. Thus, rating words in the context of a survival scenario involves central processing resources to a greater amount than rating words in a nonsurvival control condition. We discuss implications for theories of the survival processing effect.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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