Diluting the Burden of Load: Perceptual Load Effects Are Simply Dilution Effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1645-1656

  Tsal, Yehoshua ^a   Benoni, Hanna ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Dilution; Load; Perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78650123465     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018172     Document Type: Article

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