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Direct linkCosman, Joshua D.; Vecera, Shaun P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
The ability to ignore task-irrelevant information and overcome distraction is central to our ability to efficiently carry out a number of tasks. One factor shown to strongly influence distraction is the perceptual load of the task being performed; as the perceptual load of task-relevant information processing increases, the likelihood that…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Undergraduate Students
Halvorson, Kimberly M.; Ebner, Herschel; Hazeltine, Eliot – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Why are dual-task costs reduced with ideomotor (IM) compatible tasks (Greenwald & Shulman, 1973; Lien, Proctor & Allen, 2002)? In the present experiments, we first examine three different measures of single-task performance (pure single-task blocks, mixed blocks, and long stimulus onset asynchrony [SOA] trials in dual-task blocks) and two…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Stimuli, Reaction Time, Cognitive Processes
Feldman, Jill; Feighan, Kelly; Kirtcheva, Elena; Heereen, Elizabeth – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2012
Researchers studied components of a two-year school-wide Striving Readers intervention aimed at bolstering middle school teachers' use of literacy strategies to raise students' reading achievement. Although students of intervention teachers had significantly higher Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) scores than students of non-participating…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties, Middle School Teachers
