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Peer reviewedAks, Deborah J.; Coren, Stanley – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
To assess the effects of individual attentional focus differences on measures of mental skills, distractibility was studied for 272 first- and second-year college undergraduates through a speeded visual search task and tests of mental and verbal ability. Results suggest that perceptual/attentional factors are an important aspect of measured…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Ability, Higher Education, Intelligence Differences
