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SUBMITTER: Vadillo MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4793202 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vadillo Miguel A MA Orgaz Cristina C Luque David D Nelson James Byron JB
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 20160315 4
It has been suggested that people and nonhuman animals protect their knowledge from interference by shifting attention toward the context when presented with information that contradicts their previous beliefs. Despite that suggestion, no studies have directly measured changes in attention while participants are exposed to an interference treatment. In the present experiments, we adapted a dot-probe task to track participants' attention to cues and contexts while they were completing a simple ca ...[more]