Prioritized Attention and Superior Memory for Fairness-Relevant Stimuli and the Role That Cardiac Vagal Tone Plays in Attentional Engagement

We utilized the Ultimatum game to explore whether and how neutral stimuli associated with fairness or unfairness shaped and guided attentional orienting and human memory. Furthermore, we examined whether cardiac vagal tone, associated with cognitive and emotional flexibility, modulated the effect of perceived fairness on cognitive processes.