The Attentional Boost Effect: Transient increases in attention to one task enhance performance in a second task

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-132

  Swallow, Khena M ^a   Jiang, Yuhong V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task performance; Memory; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77249174848     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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