Noise and the Shifting of Attention
Open Access
- 1 September 1964
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 16 (3) , 264-267
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17470216408416377
Abstract
An experiment was carried out to test the hypothesis that performance on a task which involves a shift of attention between spatially separated sources would be lower under noise conditions than one which involved no such shift. The results indicated that the hypothesis was not proved; rather they showed that the subject's performance on the shift of attention task was better under noise than under quiet. An attempt is made to put forward possible reasons for this occurrence.Keywords
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