PhD Thesis LOAD AND THE SPATIAL PROFILE OF VISUAL SELECTIVE ATTENTION
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............................................................................................................... 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ 5 LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................... 11 LIST OF APPENDICES ............................................................................................... 13 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER 1 – GENERAL INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 17 1.1 Selective attention ..................................................................................... 18 1.2 The focus of perceptual resources .............................................................. 19 1.3 The profile of perceptual resources ............................................................ 21 1.4 The cue/probe paradigm ............................................................................ 25 1.4.1 Description of the paradigm ...................................................................... 25 1.4.2 Measuring the profile of perceptual resources ......................................... 27 1.4.3 Limitation of the cue/probe paradigm ...................................................... 28 1.5 The flanker paradigm ................................................................................. 29 1.5.1 Description of the paradigm ...................................................................... 29 1.5.2 Measuring the profile of perceptual resources ......................................... 30 1.5.3 Strength of the flanker paradigm .............................................................. 31 1.5.4 Different categories of distractors ............................................................. 31 1.6 Plan of thesis ............................................................................................. 36 te l-0 05 18 22 9, v er si on 1 16 S ep 2 01 0
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