ISSN : 1226-9654
Two experiments used recognition and copy tests in order to explore the roles of attention in explicit and implicit memory of irrelevant forms that were ignored on the previous same-different matching task. Relative brightness between the relevant and the irrelevant forms that were overlapped was manipulated in two experiments. The relative brightness selectively influenced the presence or absence of priming effects in the implicit copy test. Our results indicate bottom-up attention capture might be responsible for implicit form memory, whereas top-down attention allocation might be responsible for explicit form memory.