ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Is Attention Really Effort? Revisiting Daniel Kahneman's Influential 1973 Book
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- Neural speech tracking in noise reflects the opposing influence of SNR on intelligibility and attentional effort.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Daniel Kahneman was not the first to suggest that attention and effort are closely associated, but his 1973 book
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