383 Citations
Are We Any Closer to Understanding Divided Attention?
- PsychologyPerceptual and motor skills
- 1985
A replication of work by Hirst, Neisser, and Spelke, which requires extensive practice on two coupled tasks (reading and writing) at once is reported, highlighting the importance of individual differences in any consideration of divided attention.
Dividing Attention Without Alternation or Automaticity
- Psychology
- 1980
SUMMARY Spelke, Hirst, and Neisser trained two subjects to copy unrelated words at dictation as they read and understood stories. The subjects' success was interpreted as evidence against the…
The Development of Children's Writing
- Education
- 1985
Readers and evaluators of children's writing still fall back on deficit explanations; papers are read for signs of what they lack rather than signs of growth. Presented here is a model that predicts…
Object Naming, Vocabulary Growth, and the Development of Word Retrieval Abilities☆
- Psychology
- 2002
Previous research suggests that during a time of rapid growth in productive vocabulary, children are especially susceptible to errors of retrieval. These errors consist of words known to the child…
Can practice result in the ability to divide attention between two complex language tasks? Comment on Hirst et al.
- PsychologyJournal of experimental psychology. General
- 1981
This study is inconclusive and fails to elucidate the nature of the changes in processing that occur, so the conclusion that true divided attention is possible after training can only be made if evaluated against several criteria of automatic performance.
The Influence of Expertise in Simultaneous Interpreting on Non-Verbal Executive Processes
- PsychologyFront. Psychology
- 2011
Simultaneous interpreters outperformed bilinguals and monolinguals on the WCST by showing reduced number of attempts to infer the rule, few errors, and few previous-category perseverations, and results suggest that experience in interpreting is associated with changes in control processes required to perform interpreting tasks.
Going beyond the information given: a neural system supporting semantic interpretation
- PsychologyNeuroImage
- 2003
Is Written Language Production more Difficult than Oral Language Production? A Working Memory Approach
- Psychology
- 1994
Abstract Is written language production more difficult than oral language production? Probably, yes. But why? Several experiments were conducted in order to test the impact of low-level activities…
Attentional Limitations in Doing Two Tasks at Once
- Psychology
- 2006
People generally have difficulty doing two tasks at once. To explain this fact, theorists have proposed that central processing—the thought-like stages following perceptual encoding and preceding…
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Moray vs. the Rest: The Effects of Extended Shadowing Practice
- PsychologyThe Quarterly journal of experimental psychology
- 1974
A single highly skilled shadower using a task requiring the detection of digits embedded in dichotic lists of letters, with attention being directed to one list by use of the shadow technique was able to detect considerably more digits.
On the Division of Attention: A Disproof of the Single Channel Hypothesis
- PsychologyThe Quarterly journal of experimental psychology
- 1972
In two experiments reported here, it is shown that people can attend to and repeat back continuous speech at the same time as taking in complex, unrelated visual scenes, or even while sight-reading piano music.
The principles of psychology
- Psychology, Philosophy
- 1890
Arguably the greatest single work in the history of psychology. James's analyses of habit, the nature of emotion, the phenomenology of attention, the stream of thought, the perception of space, and…
Automatic Writing
- MedicineBritish medical journal
- 1894
One that the authors will refer to to break the boredom in reading is choosing automatic writing as the reading material.
Semantic processing of unattended messages using dichotic listening.
- PsychologyJournal of experimental psychology
- 1970
La simultan&t& des actes psychiques
- Revue Scientifique
- 1887