Socialization and learning are based on informal and incidental task-related micro-level activities (de Saint-Georges and Filliettaz 2008) and on social activities (Haigh 2007).
We tested attention during scanning using a simple incidental task.
used as "catch trials" in an incidental task designed to maintain attention throughout the run.
US type, incidental task, inter-trial interval [ITI], and trial number, were different between both experiments.
However, HC could retain both more memory traces formed during the incidental task and the effects of the emotional pictures.
Any learning of these associations would therefore be of an incidental (task-unrelated) nature and, in the absence of behavioral responses to the learned associations, could only be inferred neurophysiologically.
Additionally, in previous work (Auger et al., 2012, 2013, cited in the paper), we have demonstrated that RSC responds to landmark permanence (for everyday outdoor items) when people are engaged in a completely incidental task.
Additionally, in previous work (Auger et al., 2012; Auger and Maguire, 2013), we have demonstrated that RSC responds to landmark permanence (for everyday outdoor items) when people are engaged in a completely incidental task.
Fifty trials contained words from the trained word list, 50 contained words from the untrained word list and 10 were familiar names (e.g. john, tim, sarah, etc) used as 'catch trials' in an incidental task to maintain the participants' attention throughout the scan.
As part of their evaluation, the participants completed the incidental learning tasks.
We describe the performance of five SD patients, relative to controls, on (a) a range of semantic memory measures that predictably revealed substantial impairment, and (b) a newly designed naturalistic and incidental episodic task, which included information regarding the items and context of the semantic tasks.
