{"pk":27403,"title":"Scarcity impairs online detection and prospective memory","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Operating under limited resources poses significant demands\non the cognitive system. Here we demonstrate that people\nunder time scarcity failed to detect time-saving cues as they\noccur in the environment (Experiment 1a). These time-saving\ncues, if noticed, would have saved time for the time-poor\nparticipants. Moreover, the visuospatial proximity of the\ntime-saving cues to the focal task determined successful\ndetection, suggesting that scarcity altered the spatial scope of\nattention (Experiment 1b & 1c). People under time scarcity\nwere also more likely to forget previous instructions to\nexecute future actions (Experiment 2). These instructions, if\nremembered and followed, would have saved time for the\ntime-poor participants. Failures of online detection and\nprospective memory are problematic because they cause\nneglect and forgetting of beneficial information, perpetuating\nthe condition of scarcity. The current study provides a new\ncognitive account for the counterproductive behaviors in the\npoor, and relevant implications for interventions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"scarcity"},{"word":"attention"},{"word":"perception"},{"word":"memory"},{"word":"Recall"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2062z2wk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Brandon","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Tomm","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of British Columbia","department":""},{"first_name":"Jiaying","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhao","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of British Columbia","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27403/galley/17039/download/"}]}