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Target detection increases pupil diameter and enhances memory for background scenes during multi-tasking.
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- Target detection enhances relational processing of background items: evidence from associative recognition paradigms and EEG.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Attenuated pupillary response during visual search in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Roles of target detection and behavioral response on pupil dilation and concurrent memory: An attentional boost study.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Blood oxygenation level-dependent responses in neuromodulatory nuclei and their associations with attention and memory across age groups.Neurobiology of aging · 2025Article
- Attention-dependent coupling with forebrain and brainstem neuromodulatory nuclei differs across the lifespan.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Locus coeruleus activation 'resets' hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The attentional boost effect reflects both enhanced memory for target-paired objects and impaired memory for distractor-paired objects.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2024Article
- Nonlinear changes in pupillary attentional orienting responses across the lifespan.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Concurrent target detection is associated with better memory for object exemplars.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Grounding the Attentional Boost Effect in Events and the Efficient Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Auditory Target Detection Enhances Visual Processing and Hippocampal Functional Connectivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Individual pupil size changes as a robust indicator of cognitive familiarity differences.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Attending to targets in a detection task can facilitate memory for concurrently presented information, a phenomenon known as the attentional boost effect. One account of the attentional boost suggests that it reflects the temporal selection of behaviorally relevant moments, broadly facilitating the processing of information encountered at these times. Because pupil diameter increases when orienting to behaviorally relevant events and is positively correlated with increases in gain and activity in the locus coeruleus (a purported neurophysiological mechanism for temporal selection), we tested whether the attentional boost effect is accompanied by an increase in pupil diameter. Participants memorized a series of individually presented scenes. Whenever a scene appeared, a high or low pitched tone was played, and participants counted (and later reported) the number of tones in the pre-specified, target pitch. Target detection enhanced later memory for concurrently presented scenes. It was accompanied by a larger pupil response than was distractor rejection, and this effect was more pronounced for subsequently remembered rather than forgotten scenes. Thus, conditions that produce the attentional boost effect may also elicit phasic changes in neural gain and locus coeruleus activity.
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