Arousal and attention. Variants of high arousal -- The Yerkes-Dodson law and the effects of noise on performance -- Effects of arousal on allocation policy -- The orientation reaction
Attention and perception. Stages of perceptual analysis -- Taxonomy of selective attention -- Unit formation -- Figural emphasis -- The control of figural emphasis in search -- The organization of recognition units -- Elementary concepts of signal detection theory -- Perceptual readiness as a criterion bias
Attention and task interference. Capacity interference -- Decision bottleneck or competition for effort -- Probe measures of space capacity -- Perception and effort -- Set and other determinants of effort demands -- Structural interference -- Interference and effort theory
Attention divided among inputs. Concurrent messages and the split-span experiment -- Failures of divided attention -- Experimental tests of the Deutsch-Norman theory -- Successful division of attention -- Effort and allocation of attention -- Modality effects in divided attention
Attention to attributes. Discrimination learning -- Selective report of attributes -- Speeded classification -- Response conflict : the Stroop test
Basic issues in the study of attention. Selective aspects of attention -- Intensive aspects of attention -- Bottleneck models of attention -- A capacity model of attention
Focused attention : findings and theories. Experimental studies of focused attention -- Broadbent's filter theory -- Treisman's filter-attenuation theory -- The Deutsch-Norman theory -- Neisser and Hochberg -- A theoretical synthesis -- Groups or channels
Looking. Spontaneous looking -- The acquisition of visual information -- Eye movements and the spatial orientation of thought
Speeded responses to simultaneous and to immediately successive signals. Multiple responses and multiple tasks -- Inter-response interval and the psychological refractory period -- Refractoriness and effort -- Other findings and theories
Toward a theory of mental effort. The mobilization of effort -- The measurement of effort by arousal -- Time-pressure and momentary effort
