Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
were given a cue which mostly provided accurate information as to the ring in which the target would be presented. If visual att ...
Francolini and Egeth (1980) reported findings that are consistent with the conclusions of Johnston and Dark (1986). Subjects wer ...
findings known asattentional engagement theory. Both of these theories will now be discussed. Feature Integration Theory Treisma ...
the target and the distractors is a factor influencing visual search time. They claimed (with supporting evidence) that visual s ...
Ts the right way up. The time taken to detect the target was scarcely affected by the number of non-targets, presumably because ...
Disorders of Visual Attention: Cognitive Neuropsychology Michael Posner (e.g. Posner & Petersen, 1990) proposed a theoretica ...
tions of forthcoming targets. There was a short, intermediate, or long interval between the cue and the target. At all intervals ...
which many functionally differentiated structures participate, rather than a function controlled uniquely by a single centre.’’ ...
There are various kinds of similarity that need to be distinguished. Wickens (1984) reviewed the evidence and concluded that two ...
interpreting their findings. Perhaps the dictation task was performed rather automatically, and so placed few demands on cogniti ...
rightmost stimulus calling for response of the rightmost finger) or crossed (e.g. leftmost stimulus calling for response of the ...
Earlier in the chapter we considered various studies (e.g. Hirst et al., 1980; Spelke et al., 1976) in which two complex tasks w ...
task when each task was combined with a task requiring detection of visual signals, which suggests exactly the opposite conclusi ...
sensus regarding the nature or number of these processing modules. Second, and following on from the first point, modular theori ...
larger when the distracting information (i.e. the colour name) was in the same location as the to-be-named colour rather than in ...
memory set, and the distractors in the visual display were all selected from the other set. There was a substantial improvement ...
zontal line) in the function relating decision speed to the number of items in the memory set and/or in the visual display when ...
known as contention scheduling, which selects one of the available schemas on the basis of environmental information and current ...
of automatic, expert performance will require detailed consideration of the knowledge acquired with practice, rather than simply ...
Evaluation It would be unwise to attach much significance to the percentages of the various kinds of action slips for a number o ...
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