Attention is not unitary
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):153-154 (2001)
| Abstract | A primary proposal of the Cowan target article is that capacity limits arise in working memory because only 4 chunks of information can be attended at one time. This implies a single, unitary attentional focus or resource; we instead propose that relatively independent attentional mech- anisms operate within different cognitive subsystems depending on the demands of the current stimuli and tasks. | |||||||||
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