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Direct linkAlvarez, George A.; Horowitz, Todd S.; Arsenio, Helga C.; DiMase, Jennifer S.; Wolfe, Jeremy M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Multielement visual tracking and visual search are 2 tasks that are held to require visual-spatial attention. The authors used the attentional operating characteristic (AOC) method to determine whether both tasks draw continuously on the same attentional resource (i.e., whether the 2 tasks are mutually exclusive). The authors found that observers…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Task Analysis, Attention, Spatial Ability
