Attention

A topic within Cognitive Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Attention

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Paper1935

Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions

J. Ridley Stroop

Naming the ink colour of a colour word is slower than naming a plain colour patch because reading is so automatic that it interferes with the deliberate task, establishing interference as a basic limit on attention.

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Psychology · Cognitive Psychology

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Paper1980

A Feature-Integration Theory of Attention

Anne Treisman & Garry Gelade

Basic visual features such as colour and orientation are registered in parallel and pre-attentively, but combining them into one perceived object requires focused attention, which is why divided attention produces illusory conjunctions.

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Psychology · Cognitive Psychology

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Reading on Attention

Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions

A Feature-Integration Theory of Attention

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