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Dittrich, Kerstin; Stahl, Christoph – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Load theory predicts that concurrent cognitive load impairs selective attention. For visual stimuli, it has been shown that this impairment can be selective: Distraction was specifically increased when the stimulus material used in the cognitive load task matches that of the selective attention task. Here, we report four experiments that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attention Control, Visual Stimuli, Auditory Perception