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Increasing Working Memory Load Reduces Processing of Cross-Modal Task-Irrelevant Stimuli Even after Controlling for Task Difficulty and Executive Capacity

The classic account of the load theory (LT) of attention suggests that increasing cognitive load leads to greater processing of task-irrelevant stimuli due to competition for limited executive resource that reduces the ability to actively maintain current processing priorities. Studies testing this...

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Autores principales: Simon, Sharon S., Tusch, Erich S., Holcomb, Phillip J., Daffner, Kirk R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536226
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00380