When this title was originally published in 1981, the information processing approach to perception and memory was dominant in experimental psychology, and the research reported here had major implications for future development. After exploring the shortcomings of earlier work in this field, the author develops a new model which he shows to be capable of accounting for a variety of experimental data connected with human information processing, visual perception and attention.
The central theme which is discussed is how we select relevant and discard irrelevant information. The...
When this title was originally published in 1981, the information processing approach to perception and memory was dominant in experimental psychol...
