The animacy advantage in memory occurs under self-paced study conditions, but participants’ metacognitive beliefs can deter it
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1164038
Abstract: Introduction Animacy distinguishes living (animate) things from non-living (inanimate) things. People tend to devote attention and processing to living over nonliving things, resulting in a privileged status for animate concepts in human cognition. For example,… read more here.
Keywords: animate inanimate; self paced; inanimate items; study ... See more keywords