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Attention is not unitary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Geoffrey F. Woodman ,
Edward K. Vogel  and
Steven J. Luck
Geoffrey F. Woodman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407 geoff-woodman@uiowa.edu vogel@sdepl.ucsd.edu steven-luck@uiowa.edu www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/woodman/woodman.html www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/luck/luck.html
Edward K. Vogel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407 geoff-woodman@uiowa.edu vogel@sdepl.ucsd.edu steven-luck@uiowa.edu www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/woodman/woodman.html www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/luck/luck.html
Steven J. Luck
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407 geoff-woodman@uiowa.edu vogel@sdepl.ucsd.edu steven-luck@uiowa.edu www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/woodman/woodman.html www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/luck/luck.html
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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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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 153 - 154
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press