Increasing the number of available sources of information may impair or facilitate
performance, depending on the capacity of the processing system. Tests performed on …

A prevailing notion in experimental psychology is that individuals' performance in a task
varies gradually in a continuous fashion. In a Stroop task, for example, the true average …

The authors present a theory of stochastic interactive parallel processing with special
emphasis on channel interactions and their relation to system capacity. The approach is …

The question as to whether humans perceive, remember, or cognize psychological items
simultaneously (ie, in parallel) or sequentially (ie, serially) has been of interest to …

The present paper provides a short critical review of the theory of perceptual load. It closely
examines the basic tenets and assumptions of the theory and identifies major conceptual …

The item response times (RTs) collected from computerized testing represent an
underutilized type of information about items and examinees. In addition to knowing the …

The present study investigated how an individual's Zhong-Yong tendency is related to
his/her perceptual processing capacity. In two experiments, participants completed a Zhong …

Variations in perceptual and cognitive demands (load) play a major role in determining the
efficiency of selective attention. According to load theory (Lavie, Hirst, Fockert, & Viding …

Composite faces fuse the top half of one face with the bottom half of another. These stimuli
inflict a strong illusion of a novel face on their viewers, and are often considered to be …

Based on data from a cognitive test presented in a condition with time constraints per item
and a condition without time constraints, the effect of speed on accuracy is investigated …