The role of working memory in tactile selective attention.

Load theory suggests that working memory controls the extent to which irrelevant distractors are processed (e.g., Lavie, Hirst, De Fockert, and Viding, 2004). However, so far this proposal has only been tested in vision. Here, we examine the extent to which tactile selective attention also depends o...

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Main Authors: Dalton, P, Lavie, N, Spence, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009