Psychological science has long been cleaved by a fundamental divide between researchers
who experimentally manipulate variables and those who measure existing individual …

Load Theory (,) states that the level of perceptual load in a task (ie, the amount of information
involved in processing task-relevant stimuli) determines the efficiency of selective attention …

The ability to focus on a task while disregarding irrelevant information is an example of
selective attention. The perceptual-load hypothesis argues that the occurrence of early or …

Spatial attention is a necessary cognitive process, allowing for the direction of limited
capacity resources to varying locations in the visual field for improved visual processing …

We investigate variability overweighting, a previously undocumented bias in line graphs,
where estimates of average value are biased toward areas of higher variability in that line …

Small multiples are a popular visualization method, displaying different views of a dataset
using multiple frames, often with the same scale and axes. However, there is a need to …

Abstract Perceptual load theory (Lavie, 1995) claims that visual selection is determined both
by the perceptual demands a display imposes and by the perceptual resources an observer …

Selecting relevant information while ignoring irrelevant distractors is critical for every
cognitive function. Visual working memory (VWM) load is 1 factor that can modulate …

Intentional forgetting of unwanted items is effortful, yet directed forgetting seems to improve
when a secondary task is performed. According to the cognitive load hypothesis of directed …

Background: According to the perceptual load theory, distractor processing is determined by
the perceptual load. On the other hand, alternative explanations suggest that perceptual …