An earlier model of this ability formulated by Broadbent posits a bottleneck filter and cannot account for the (*) cocktail party effect that allows multiple conversations to be processed at once.
Precues can be used to study this process in the Posner test. The stimuli "money" and "river" changesdd the interpretation of "bank" in a study by MacKay that challenged the "leaky filter" models of this process that are modulated by Treisman's attenuator. Daniel Kahneman proposed a model of this process that focuses on the mental effort it takes to process stimuli. An earlier model of this ability formulated by Broadbent posits a bottleneck filter and cannot account for the (*) cocktail party effect that allows multiple conversations to be processed at once. The load theory describes this skill as a limited resource that must be divided when multitasking. For 10 points, name this cognitive ability to focus on tasks impaired in a namesake deficit disorder.
Precues can be used to study this process in the Posner test.
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