Chapter Study Outline

  1. Selective Attention
    1. Dichotic Listening
    2. Some Unattended Inputs Are Detected
    3. Perceiving and the Limits on Cognitive Capacity
    4. Inattentional Blindness
    5. Conscious Perception, Unconscious Perception
    6. Change Blindness
    7. Early Versus Late Selection
    8. Selective Priming
    9. Two Types of Priming
    10. Explaining the Costs and Benefits
    11. Chronometric Studies and Spatial Attention
    12. Attention as a Spotlight
    13. Attending to Objects or Attending to Positions
    14. Feature Binding
    15. Perceiving and the Limits on Cognitive Capacity: An Interim Summary
  2. Divided Attention
    1. The Specificity of Resources
    2. The Generality of Resources
    3. Identifying General Resources
    4. Executive Control
    5. Divided Attention: An Interim Summary
  3. Practice
    1. Practice Diminishes Resource Demand
    2. Why Does Practice Improve Performance?
    3. Automaticity
    4. Where Are the Limits?
  4. Chapter Summary