The voluntary/involuntary attention distinction in the embedded-processes model maps onto signaling, coherence, and split-attention principles¶
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q1 i? Involuntary attention allocation (driven by stimulus saliency or novelty) underlies the signaling and coherence principles, while voluntary allocation underlies the split-attention principle. → Judith Schweppe & Ralf Rummer 2015
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Judith Schweppe & Ralf Rummer 2015¶
Judith Schweppe & Ralf Rummer. (2015). Attention and Long-Term Memory in System and Process Theories of Working Memory: A Reply to Soemer's (2015) Comment on Schweppe and Rummer (2014). Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-015-9336-0
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Theoretical mapping argument: the article links involuntary attention (stimulus saliency/novelty) to the signaling principle and to avoiding seductive details in the coherence principle, and voluntary allocation via the central executive to the split-attention principle's support for searching corresponding graphics and text.
"The involuntary allocation of attention is driven by characteristics of the stimuli (their saliency or novelty), a fact that is employed in the signaling principle"
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The voluntary/involuntary attention distinction in the embedded-processes model maps onto signaling, coherence, and split-attention principles |
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The voluntary/involuntary attention distinction in the embedded-processes model maps onto signaling, coherence, and split-attention principles |
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