Extended Data Fig. 5: Trait-level differences in sustained attention at encoding help to explain why individuals are more prone to remembering or forgetting.
From: Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking
a, b, Greater pre-goal attention lapsing at encoding is correlated with greater pre-goal attention lapsing at retrieval (a) and lower d′ on the memory task (b). For visualization, raw scores are plotted; statistics included z-scored assays with Pearson correlations. n = 75 participants for alpha retrieval data and n = 80 participants for all other data from a single independent experiment. These trait differences in attention at encoding do not fully explain the relationship between the trait differences in attention at retrieval and memory ability (Supplementary Information).
