Attentional Resources Selective
Attentional Resources Selective
- DEFINITION: The ability to pick one source of information to process (attend) over other sources.
- This is the hand that guides the search light.
- Information is conceived as coming in from the world in channels.
- A channel is a potential source of information.
- Vision vs. audition are channels; within vision or audition, different locations may be different channels, e.g., different dials on dash board.
- Can be demonstrated in shadowing.