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Release of Inattentional Blindness by High Working Memory Load: Elucidating the Relationship between Working Memory and Selective Attention
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de Fockert, Jan W.; Bremner, Andrew J. – Cognition, 2011
An unexpected stimulus often remains unnoticed if attention is focused elsewhere. This inattentional blindness has been shown to be increased under conditions of high memory load. Here we show that increasing working memory load can also have the opposite effect of reducing inattentional blindness (i.e., improving stimulus detection) if stimulus…
Descriptors: Attention, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Attention Capacity and Task Difficulty in Visual Search
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Huang, Liqiang; Pashler, Harold – Cognition, 2005
When a visual search task is very difficult (as when a small feature difference defines the target), even detection of a unique element may be substantially slowed by increases in display set size. This has been attributed to the influence of attentional capacity limits. We examined the influence of attentional capacity limits on three kinds of…
Descriptors: Attention, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception