The role of attentional resources in automatic detection |
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Authors: | James E Hoffman Billie Nelson Michael R Houck |
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Institution: | University of Delaware USA |
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Abstract: | The question of whether an automatic detection task requires the use of limited-capacity resources was investigated in a series of dual-task experiments. The automatic task required subjects to detect a consistently mapped target digit in a display of letters. This task was paired with a variety of concurrent visual discriminations that could either occur in close proximity to the automatic target or in a disparate display area. The main finding was that accuracy in each task was higher in conditions allowing attention to be shared than when it had to be divided between separate areas. These results indicate that detection of automatic targets depends on the allocation of spatial attention to the target's area. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to James E Hoffman Department of Psychology University of Delaware Newark DE 19711 |
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