Selective attention allows us to ignore what is task-irrelevant and focus on what is task-
relevant. The cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie this process are key topics of …

The ability to selectively process information (attention) and to retain information in an
accessible state (working memory) are critical aspects of our cognitive capacities. While …

This study examined the relationship between the presence of mobile devices and the
quality of real-life in-person social interactions. In a naturalistic field experiment, 100 dyads …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of
Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction …

We discuss two general concepts of attention:(1) As a filter of selective attention that selects
and admits channels of information from the environment to be processed;(2) as a resource …

We investigated the effects of divided attention during walking. Individuals were classified
based on whether they were walking while talking on a cell phone, listening to an MP3 …

Information processing lies at the heart of human performance. This chapter describe the
characteristics of the different important stages of information processing, from perception of …

The attentional blink (JE Raymond, KL Shapiro, & KM Arnell, 1992) refers to an apparent
gap in perception observed when a second target follows a first within several hundred …

Short-term maintenance of verbal information is a core factor of language repetition,
especially when reproducing multiple or unfamiliar stimuli. Many models of language …