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Survival Processing Occupies the Central Bottleneck of Cognitive Processing: A Psychological Refractory Period Analysis
2022-07-19
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<p>Words judged for relevance in a survival situation are remembered better than words judged for relevance in a non-survival 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, however, the survival processing effect arises from a doma...
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- 4deb053e-7863-5425-aee0-539fc6c6a08b
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- 10.31234/osf.io/j3fwk
