Attention and effort
Print Book, English, [1973]
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., [1973]
x, 246 pages illustrations 24 cm
9780130505187, 0130505188
590203
Basic issues in the study of attention. Selective aspects of attention
Intensive aspects of attention
Bottleneck models of attention
A capacity model of attention. Toward a theory of mental effort. The mobilization of effort
The measurement of effort by arousal
Time-pressure and momentary effort. Arousal and attention. Variants of high arousal
The Yerkes-Dodson law and the effects of noise on performance
Effects of arousal on allocation policy
The orientation reaction. Looking. Spontaneous looking
The acquisition of visual information
Eye movements and the spatial orientation of thought. Attention and perception. Stages of perceptual analysis
Taxonomy of selective attention
Unit formation
Figural emphasis
The control of figural emphasis in search
The organization of recognition units
Elementary concepts of signal detection theory
Perceptual readiness as a criterion bias. Attention to attributes. Discrimination learning
Selective report of attributes
Speeded classification
Response conflict : the Stroop test. Focused attention : findings and theories. Experimental studies of focused attention
Broadbent's filter theory
Treisman's filter-attenuation theory
The Deutsch-Norman theory
Neisser and Hochberg
A theoretical synthesis
Groups or channels. Attention divided among inputs. Concurrent messages and the split-span experiment
Failures of divided attention
Experimental tests of the Deutsch-Norman theory
Successful division of attention
Effort and allocation of attention
Modality effects in divided attention. Speeded responses to simultaneous and to immediately successive signals. Multiple responses and multiple tasks
Inter-response interval and the psychological refractory period
Refractoriness and effort
Other findings and theories. Attention and task interference. Capacity interference
Decision bottleneck or competition for effort
Probe measures of space capacity
Perception and effort
Set and other determinants of effort demands
Structural interference
Interference and effort theory