Load Theory of Selective Attention and Cognitive Control

Lavie, N., Hirst, A., de Fockert, J. W., & Viding, E. (2004). Load Theory of Selective Attention and Cognitive Control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133(3), 339-354.

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Journal article

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Year

2004

DOI

10.1037/0096-3445.133.3.339

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https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.133.3.339

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• Backpressure
  • In neuroscience it is the attentional narrowing that refuses new sensory input when working memory saturates.

    This sourceEstablishes that high perceptual load exhausts perceptual capacity and gates out further (distractor) sensory input — the attentional-narrowing analogue of capacity-limited throttling.

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