Unintended Allocation of Spatial Attention to Goal-Relevant but Not to Goal-Related Events
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Multiple goal management starts with attention: goal prioritizing affects the allocation of spatial attention to goal-relevant events.
Prior studies have shown that attention is allocated to events relevant to the current goal of a person. Until now, research has focused on the implementation of a single goal leaving open the question of how attention is allocated when multiple goals are activated. We examined whether the allocation of spatial attention is affected by the prioritizing of one goal over another. The results of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Psychology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1864-9335,2151-2590
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000042