Investigating the visual span in comparative search: The effects of task difficulty and divided attention

Cognition

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Pomplun, Marc ^a   Reingold, Eyal M ^a   Shen, Jiye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Task difficulty; Visual span in comparative search

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; VISION;

MISMATCH DETECTION TASK;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DATA ANALYSIS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035452940     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00123-8     Document Type: Article

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