Media multitasking predicts unitary versus splitting visual focal attention

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 889-902

  Yap, Jit Yong ^a   Lim, Stephen Wee Hun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Multitasking; Splitting visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MEDIA MULTITASKING INDEX; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STEADY STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECREATION; SPLITTING VISUAL FOCAL ATTENTION; VISION;

EID: 84887594769     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2013.835315     Document Type: Article

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