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There is no four-object limit on attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Greg Davis
Greg Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, London WCIE 7HX, United [email protected] www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/staff/gid.html
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Abstract

The complex relationship between attention and STM forms a core issue in the study of human cognition, and Cowan's target article attempts, quite successfully, to elucidate an important part of this relationship. However, while I agree that aspects of STM performance may reflect the action mechanisms that we normally consider to subserve “attention” I shall argue here that attention is not subject to a fixed four-object capacity limit as Cowan suggests. Rather, performance in attention tasks as well as STM may be best accounted for in terms of decay and interference.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 119 - 120
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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