| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| What Is the Psychology of Attention About? | |
| Approaches to the Analysis of Attention | |
| The Information-Processing Approach | |
| Theory Testing | |
| Background: Modern Theories of Attention | |
| Early Selection Theories | |
| Late Selection Theories | |
| Major Alternatives | |
| Elements of Compromise: Attenuation and Sharing | |
| Methods and Terms: Laboratory Measures of Attention | |
| Filtering Tasks | |
| Monitoring Tasks | |
| Tasks Involving a Single Stimulus | |
| Organization of the Book | |
| Attention and Perception | |
| Selective Attention | |
| Auditory Selective Attention | |
| Cherry's Studies: Reports about the Unattended | |
| Factors Affecting the Difficulty of Selection | |
| What Is Noticed in the Rejected Message? | |
| Subtler Measures of the Fate of Rejected Sounds | |
| Visual Selective Attention | |
| Ease of Selection | |
| Fate of Rejected Stimuli | |
| Consequences for Early Visual Processes | |
| Visual Selection and Eye Movements | |
| Bimodal Selective Attention | |
| The Time Course of Selection | |
| Conclusions | |
| Selective Attention in Vision and Hearing | |
| Space and the Process of Visual Selection | |
| Divided Attention | |
| Taking in Information from Brief Visual Displays | |
| Report Tasks | |
| Searching Brief Displays | |
| Speeded Visual Search | |
| Slopes and Their Interpretation | |
| Search for Complex Stimuli: Words and Faces | |
| Multiple Attributes of a Single Object | |
| Divided Attention and Hearing | |
| Report Tasks | |
| Monitoring Tasks | |
| The Auditory Double-Detection Decrement | |
| Perceiving Bimodal Stimuli | |
| A Summary of Divided Attention | |
| The Nature of Perceptual Capacity Limits | |
| Attentional Set | |
| Cueing Orthogonal Attributes--Potential Benefits | |
| Location Cueing and Uncertainty Effects in Vision | |
| Detection and Discrimination at Threshold | |
| Spatial Cueing in Simple Reaction Time | |
| Discrimination Accuracy in Brief Masked Displays | |
| Speeded Discrimination Tasks | |
| Advance Knowledge about Location: Conclusions | |
| Visual Stimuli: Set for Nonspatial Attributes | |
| Spatial Frequency and Size | |
| Orientation of Familiar Objects | |
| Auditory Stimuli | |
| Set for Frequency | |
| Set for Location and Other Attributes | |
| Tactile Perception and Pain | |
| Set for Object Identity and Perceptual Readiness | |
| Potential Benefits | |
| Before versus Before and After | |
| Bias and the Benefits of Set | |
| Set and Subjective Clarity | |
| Conclusions about Set | |
| Capacity and Selection: Theorizing about Attention | |
| Ten Generalizations: A Summary of Chapters 2 through 4 | |
| Selective Attention | |
| Perceptual Set | |
| Classic Theories Revisited | |
| Early Selection Theory | |
| Late Selection Theory | |
| Selection and Capacity: Controlled Parallel Processing Revisited | |
| Attention: Exclusion or Capacity Allocation? | |
| The Two-Target Effect Revisited | |
| Set Revisited | |
| Summary: Conceptualizing Attention | |
| Attention or Attentions? | |
| The Scope of the Preattentive | |
| Control of Attention | |
| Competition for Resources: Sharing versus Switching | |
| Attentional Blink | |
| Attending to Objects or to Locations | |
| Involuntary Shifts of Attention | |
| Voluntary Control of Sensory Attention | |
| Consequences of Attention | |
| Knowledge of the World | |
| Attention and the Perception of Time | |
| Attention, Memory, and Action | |
| Central Processing Limitations in Sensorimotor Tasks | |
| Theorizing about Central Attentional Limitations | |
| Commonsense Theories | |
| Capacity Theories | |
| Bottleneck Theories | |
| Crosstalk and Task Similarity | |
| Neural Theories of Dual-Task Interference | |
| Empirical Evidence: Continuous Dual-Task Performance | |
| Empirical Evidence: Dual-Task Interference in Simple Tasks | |
| Dual Speeded Responses: The PRP Effect | |
| Converging Evidence for a Central Bottleneck | |
| Response Production Bottlenecks? | |
| Evaluating Theories of Dual-Task Interference | |
| Commonsense Theories | |
| Graded Capacity Sharing | |
| Bottleneck Theories | |
| Crosstalk and Task Similarity | |
| Neural Theories | |
| Continuous versus Discrete Performance | |
| Why a Central Bottleneck? | |
| Practice or Difficulty | |
| Selecting Multiple Responses | |
| Central and Perceptual Capacity Limits | |
| Conclusions | |
| Attention and Memory | |
| Structural Models of Memory: Empirical Evidence | |
| Distinguishing Sensory Memory from Other Memory Systems | |
| Distinguishing STM and LTM | |
| Critical Evaluation | |
| Distinguishing Separate Short-Term Memory Systems | |
| Procedural/Declarative Distinction | |
| Attentional Limitations in Memory Storage | |
| Sensory Memory Storage | |
| Short-Term Memory Encoding and Retention | |
| Long-Term (Explicit) Memory | |
| Implicit Memory | |
| Attentional Limitations and Memory Retrieval | |
| Levels of Processing Theory and The Nature of Encoding | |
| Conclusions | |
| Automaticity, Effort, and Control | |
| Automaticity: Theory and Phenomena | |
| Empirical Evidence on Practice | |
| Lack of Voluntary Control | |
| Reassessing Automaticity | |
| Speculations: Germs of Truth in Automaticity Theory | |
| Mental Effort | |
| Subjective Effort: Causes and Consequences? | |
| Control | |
| Task Set in Laboratory Tasks | |
| Executive Control and Attention | |
| Conclusions | |
| Selectivity and Capacity Limits in Perception | |
| Perceptual and Central Attentional Limitations | |
| Attention and Memory | |
| Automaticity | |
| Concluding Comment | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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