Abstract
A fundamental aspect of our cognitive activity is selection, by attentional mechanisms, of a portion of the vast amount of information we are confronting at any moment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science |
| Subtitle of host publication | Nadel/Cognitive |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470018866 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470016190 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords
- attention
- divided attention
- executive functions
- focused attention
- visual attention