STRATEGIES AND MODELS OF SELECTIVE ATTENTION

Reviews experiments on selective attention, mainly to competing speech messages, and relates them to D. E. Broadbents filter theory. 4 types of attention strategy are distinguished; (1) restriction of the number of inputs analyzed, (2) restriction of the dimensions analyzed, (3) the items (defined by sets of critical features) for which S looks or listens, and (4) selections of which results of perceptual analysis will control behavior and be stored in memory. The role played by these different mechanisms in various experimental tasks is explored and their relative importance and efficiency assessed. (2 p. ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.