Dynamics of automatic and controlled visual attention.

E Weichselgartner, G Sperling

Psychology Department, New York University, NY 10003.

Journal Article: Science (impact factor: 29.75). 12/1987; 238(4828):778-80.

Abstract

The time course of attention was experimentally observed using two kinds of stimuli: a cue to begin attending or to shift attention, and a stimulus to be attended. Precise measurements of the time course of attention show that it consists of two partially concurrent processes: a fast, effortless, automatic process that records the cue and its neighboring events; and a slower, effortful, controlled process that records the stimulus to be attended and its neighboring events.

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