Anne Treisman

Monitoring and storage of irrelevant messages in selective attention

Is selective attention selective perception or selective response? A further test.

Ss repeated back 1 of 2 lists of synchronized digits presented dichotically. Ss were also asked to listen for occasional letters in either ear and to stop shadowing at once and ...

Feature analysis in early vision: Evidence from search asymmetries.

Illusory conjunctions in the perception of objects

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

This paper reviews evidence from neuropsychological patient studies relevant to two questions concerning the functions of the medial temporal lobe in humans.The first is whether...

Verbal Cues, Language, and Meaning in Selective Attention

In 1953, Cherry did a series of experiments requiring a selective response to one of two verbal messages presented either binaurally or dichotically.1 While the irrelevant messa...

Strategies and models of selective attention.

Contextual Cues in Selective Listening

Two messages were presented dichotically and subjects were asked to “shadow” whatever they heard on one ear. Somewhere in the middle the two passages were switched to the opposi...