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ArticleAdvances in cognitive psychology2017

Is Attentional Resource Allocation Across Sensory Modalities Task-Dependent?

Basil Wahn, Peter König

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Article in Advances in cognitive psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Basil WahnInstitute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.
Peter KönigInstitut für Neurophysiologie und Pathophysiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human information processing is limited by attentional resources. That is, via attentional mechanisms, humans select a limited amount of sensory input to process while other sensory input is neglected. In multisensory research, a matter of ongoing debate is whether there are distinct pools of attentional resources for each sensory modality or whether attentional resources are shared across sensory modalities. Recent studies have suggested that attentional resource allocation across sensory modalities is in part task-dependent. That is, the recruitment of attentional resources across the sensory modalities depends on whether processing involves

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attentional blinkattentional resourcesload theorymultiple object trackingmultisensory

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PMID28450975
PMCPMC5405449

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