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Caparos, Serge; Linnell, Karina J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Selective attention has been hypothesized to reduce distractor interference at both perceptual and postperceptual levels (Lavie, 2005), respectively, by focusing perceptual resources on the attended location and by blocking at postperceptual levels distractors that survive perceptual selection. This study measured the impact of load on these…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Profiles
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Bialystok, Ellen; DePape, Anne-Marie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The authors investigated whether intensive musical experience leads to enhancements in executive processing, as has been shown for bilingualism. Young adults who were bilinguals, musical performers (instrumentalists or vocalists), or neither completed 3 cognitive measures and 2 executive function tasks based on conflict. Both executive function…
Descriptors: Musicians, Young Adults, Cognitive Processes, Bilingualism