Distracted and confused?: Selective attention under load

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-82

  Lavie, Nilli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; RESEARCH;

COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; CONTROL PROCESSES; NEUROIMAGING; STMULI;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONFUSION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; GOALS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 12844251426     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.12.004     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. J. Driver A selective review of selective attention research from the past century Br. J. Psychol. 92 2001 53 78
2. N. Lavie, and Y. Tsal Perceptual load as a major determinant of the locus of selection in visual attention Percept. Psychophys. 56 1994 183 197
3. N. Lavie Perceptual load as a necessary condition for selective attention J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 21 1995 451 468
4. N. Lavie, and S. Cox On the efficiency of attentional selection: Efficient visual search results in inefficient rejection of distraction Psychol. Sci. 8 1997 395 398
5. N. Lavie Selective attention and cognitive control: Dissociating attentional functions through different types of load S. Monsell J., Driver Attention and performance XVIII 2000 MIT Press 175 194
6. D.A. Norman, and D.G. Bobrow On data-limited and resource-limited processes Cogn. Psychol. 7 1975 44 64
7. N. Lavie, and J.W. DeFockert Contrasting effects of sensory limits and capacity limits in visual selective attention Percept. Psychophys. 65 2003 202 212
8. Y.H. Jiang, and M.M. Chun Selective attention modulates implicit learning Q. J. Exp. Psychol. A 54 2001 1105 1124
9. N. Lavie, and E. Fox The role of perceptual load in negative priming J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 26 2000 1038 1052
10. G. Rees Modulating irrelevant motion perception by varying attentional load in an unrelated task Science 278 1997 1616 1619
11. G. Rees Inattentional blindness versus inattentional amnesia for fixated but ignored words Science 286 1999 2504 2507
12. D.J. Yi Neural fate of ignored stimuli: Dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load Nat. Neurosci. 7 2004 992 996
13. K. Grill-Spector, and R. Malach fMR-adaptation: a tool for studying the functional properties of human cortical neurons Acta Psychol. (Amst.) 107 2001 293 321
14. M.A. Pinsk Push-pull mechanism of selective attention in human extrastriate cortex J. Neurophysiol. 92 2004 622 629
15. P. Vuilleumier Effects of attention and emotion on face processing in the human brain: An event-related fMRI study Neuron 30 2001 829 841
16. L. Pessoa Neural processing of emotional faces requires attention Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 99 2002 11458 11463
17. Schwartz, S. et al. Attentional load and sensory competition in human vision: Modulation of fMRI responses by load at fixation during task-irrelevant stimulation in the peripheral visual field. Cereb. Cortex (in press)
18. D.H. O'Connor Attention modulates responses in the human lateral geniculate nucleus Nat. Neurosci. 5 2002 1203 1209
19. T.C. Handy Perceptual load and visuocortical processing: Event-related potentials reveal sensory-level selection Psychol. Sci. 12 2001 213 218
20. J.R. Stroop Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions J. Exp. Psychol. 18 1935 643 662
21. Z. Chen Attentional focus, processing load, and Stroop interference Percept. Psychophys. 65 2003 888 900
22. D.N. Johnson Cuing interacts with perceptual load in visual search Psychol. Sci. 13 2002 284 287
23. T.C. Handy, and G.R. Mangun Attention and spatial selection: Electrophysiological evidence for modulation by perceptual load Percept. Psychophys. 62 2000 175 186
24. L. Paquet, and G.L. Craig Evidence for selective target processing with a low perceptual load flankers task Mem. Cogn. 25 1997 182 189
25. D.J. Tellinghuisen, and E.J. Nowak The inability to ignore auditory distractors as a function of visual task perceptual load Percept. Psychophys. 65 2003 817 828
26. G. Rees Processing of irrelevant visual motion during performance of an auditory task Neuropsychologia 39 2001 937 949
27. R.A. Berman, and C.L. Colby Auditory and visual attention modulate motion processing in area MT+ Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 14 2002 64 74
28. R.J. Houghton Attentional modulation of the visual motion aftereffect has a central cognitive locus: Evidence of interference by the postcategorical on the precategorical J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 29 2003 731 740
29. N. Lavie, and I. Robertson The role of perceptual load in visual neglect: Rejection of ipsilesional distractors is facilitated with higher central load J. Cogn. Neurosci. 13 2001 867 876
30. T. Kumada, and G.W. Humphreys Early selection induced by perceptual load in a patient with frontal lobe damage: External vs. internal modulation of processing control Cogn. Neuropsychol. 19 2002 49 65
31. J. Duncan Systematic analysis of deficits in visual attention J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 128 1999 450 478
32. N. Lavie Load theory of selective attention and cognitive control J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 133 2004 339 354
33. J.W. De Fockert The role of working memory in visual selective attention Science 291 2001 1803 1806
34. Lavie, N. and De Fockert, J.W. The role of working memory in attentional capture. Psychon. Bull. Rev. (in press)
35. Lavie, N. and De Fockert, J.W. Frontal control of attentional capture in visual search. Vis. Cogn. (in press)
36. G.D. Logan Attention in character-classification tasks: evidence for the automaticity of component stages J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 107 1978 32 63
37. G.F. Woodman VS remains efficient when visual working memory is full Psychol. Sci. 12 2001 219 224
38. N. Lavie The role of perceptual load in processing distractor faces Psychol. Sci. 14 2003 510 515
39. R. Jenkins Long-term effects of covert face recognition Cognition 86,B 2002 43 52
40. Jenkins, R. et al. Recognition memory for distractor faces depends on attentional load at exposure. Psychon. Bull. Rev. (in press)
41. E. Maylor, and N. Lavie The influence of perceptual load on age differences in selective attention Psychol. Aging 13 1998 563 573
42. C.L. Huang-Pollock Development of selective attention: Perceptual load influences early versus late attentional selection in children and adults Dev. Psychol. 38 2002 363 375
43. R. Rettenbach Do deaf people see better? Texture segmentation and visual search compensate in adult but not in juvenile subjects J. Cogn. Neurosci. 11 1999 560 583
44. D. Bavelier Visual attention to the periphery is enhanced in congenitally deaf individuals J. Neurosci. 20 2000 1 6
45. D. Bavelier Impact of early deafness and early exposure to sign language on the cerebral organization for motion processing J. Neurosci. 21 2001 8931 8942
46. E.M. Finney, and K.R. Dobkins Visual contrast sensitivity in deaf versus hearing populations: Exploring the perceptual consequences of auditory deprivation and experience with a visual language Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 11 2001 171 183
47. J. Proksch, and D. Bavelier Changes in the spatial distribution of visual attention after early deafness J. Cogn. Neurosci. 14 2002 687 701
48. C.S. Green, and D. Bavelier Action video game modifies visual selective attention Nature 423 2003 534 537
49. R. Desimone Visual attention mediated by biased competition in extrastriate visual cortex Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 353 1998 1245 1255
50. R. Dukas, and A.C. Kamil The cost of limited attention in blue jays Behav. Eco. 11 2000 502 506
51. A. Treisman Features and objects: the fourteenth Bartlett memorial lecture Q. J. Exp. Psychol. A 40 1988 201 237