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Kidd, Gary R.; Greenwald, Anthony G. – 1982
The issue of whether information to which little or no attention is paid can have lasting effects is of interest to psychologists as well as educators and advertisers. Two experiments were designed to examine whether focused attention is required, whether the immediate memory task is important, or whether subjects' knowledge that repetitions are…
Descriptors: Attention, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes
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Brockmole, James R.; Henderson, John M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
The authors examined the prioritization of abruptly appearing objects in real-world scenes by measuring the eyes' propensity to be directed to the new object. New objects were fixated more often than chance whether they appeared during fixations (transient onsets) or saccades (nontransient onsets). However, onsets that appeared during fixations…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Memory, Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills