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The focus of attention across space and across time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Brian McElree  and
Barbara Anne Dosher
Brian McElree
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 bdm@psych.nyu.edu www.psych.nyu.edu/dept/faculty/mcelree/research.html
Barbara Anne Dosher
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717 bdosher@uci.edu www.aris.ss.uci.edu/cogsci/personnel/dosher/dosher.html
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Abstract

Measures of retrieval speed for recently presented events show a sharp dichotomy between representations in focal attention and representations that are recently processed but no longer attended. When information is presented over time, retrieval measures show that focal attention and rapid privileged access is limited to the most recently processed unit or chunk, not the last 3–5 chunks that Cowan estimates from various recall procedures.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 129 - 130
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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