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Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking

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Madore, Kevin P., Khazenzon, Anna M., Backes, Cameron W., Jiang, Jiefeng, Uncapher, Melina R., Norcia, Anthony M., Wagner, Anthony D.·2020·Nature

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With the explosion of digital media and technologies, scholars, educators and the public have become increasingly vocal about the role that an 'attention economy' has in our lives 1. The rise of the current digital culture coincides with longstanding scientific questions about why humans sometimes remember and sometimes forget, and why some individuals remember better than others 2-6. Here we examine whether spontaneous attention lapses-in the moment 7-12, across individuals 13-15 and as a function of everyday media multitasking 16-19-negatively correlate with remembering. Electroencephalography and pupillometry measures of attention 20,21 were recorded as eighty young adults (mean age, 21.7 years) performed a goal-directed episodic encoding and retrieval task 22. Trait-level sustained attention was further quantified using task-based 23 and questionnaire measures 24,25. Using trial-to-trial retrieval data, we show that tonic lapses in attention in the moment before remembering, assayed by posterior alpha power and pupil diameter, were correlated with reductions in neural signals of goal coding and memory, along with behavioural forgetting. Independent measures of trait-level attention lapsing mediated the relationship between neural assays of lapsing and memory performance, and between media multitasking and memory. Attention lapses partially account for why we remember or forget in the moment, and why some individuals remember better than others. Heavier media multitasking is associated with a propensity to have attention lapses and forget.

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Authors: Madore, K. P., Khazenzon, A. M., Backes, C. W., Jiang, J., Uncapher, M. R., Norcia, A. M., & Wagner, A. D.
Affiliations: Stanford University (US)
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author: Madore, Kevin P.
Wagner, Anthony D.
ORCID: Madore, Kevin P.
Khazenzon, Anna M.
Jiang, Jiefeng
Uncapher, Melina R.
Norcia, Anthony M.
Wagner, Anthony D.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2020-10-28
Volume: 587
Issue: 7832
Pages: 87-91
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2870-z
PMC: PMC7644608
OpenAlex: W3095623676
Cited by: 184
References: 51
Citations by year: 2026: 39 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 1
FWCI: 10.94
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
www.springer.com/tdm (vor)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Institute on Aging (R01AG065255, F32AG059341)
National Institute of Mental Health (R56MH111672)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
Keywords: attentional lapses, media multitasking, memory failure, episodic memory, forgetting, sustained attention, pupil size, individual differences in memory, attention economy, digital media
MeSH terms: Memory Consolidation, Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Electroencephalography, Female, Goals, Humans, Male, Memory, Internet, Young Adult

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