Components of attention.

Author(s)
Posner, M.I. & Boies, S.J.
Year
Abstract

The study of human attention may be divided into three components. These are alertness, selectivity, and processing capacity. This paper outlines experimental techniques designed to separate these components and examine their interrelations within comparable tasks. It is shown that a stimulus may be used to increase alertness for processing all external information, to improve selection of particular stimuli, or to do both simultaneously.

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Library number
A 8910 [electronic version only]
Source

Psychological Review, Vol. 78 (1971), No. 5, p. 391-408

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