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Direct linkAllen, Harriet A.; Humphreys, Glyn W.; Matthews, Paul M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The ability to attend to relevant events and to ignore irrelevant stimuli is crucial to survival. Theories disagree on whether this ability is dependent solely on increased neural activation for relevant items or whether active ignoring can also play a role. The authors examined the active ignoring of stimuli using a preview search procedure,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurological Organization
