TY - JOUR
T1 - Individual differences in self reported cognitive failures
T2 - The attention hypothesis revisited
AU - Meiran, Nachshon
AU - Israeli, Amira
AU - Levi, Henri
AU - Grafi, Ronit
N1 - Funding Information:
Ac~~no~/ed~frn~nt--The preparation of this paper was partly supported by the Rotman Research Institute fellowship given to the tirst author.
PY - 1994/1/1
Y1 - 1994/1/1
N2 - It is unclear which attention functions are related to self reported cognitive failures [measured with the CFQ (Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald & Parks, 1982)]. Experiment 1 showed no significant correlations between CFQ and two perceptual speed tests. In Experiment 2 we identified two attention/control factors. Shifting between action-schemas was not significantly correlated with CFQ. However, frequent cognitive failures were associated with slow performance on focused attention tasks (r = 0.61). In Experiment 3 subjects named tachistoscopically presented letters, appearing in one of eight locations along a circular display. In 75% of the trials targets appeared in one of two pre-cued locations. When the cues were adjacent and the Stimulus-Onset-Asynchrony was long (120 msec) subjects zoomed covert visual attention on the cued locations. Report of frequent cognitive failures was significantly associated with greater zooming (r = 0.45). Nevertheless, zooming led more to costs than to benefits. The data are discussed in terms of Norman and Shallice's (1986) model of attention control.
AB - It is unclear which attention functions are related to self reported cognitive failures [measured with the CFQ (Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald & Parks, 1982)]. Experiment 1 showed no significant correlations between CFQ and two perceptual speed tests. In Experiment 2 we identified two attention/control factors. Shifting between action-schemas was not significantly correlated with CFQ. However, frequent cognitive failures were associated with slow performance on focused attention tasks (r = 0.61). In Experiment 3 subjects named tachistoscopically presented letters, appearing in one of eight locations along a circular display. In 75% of the trials targets appeared in one of two pre-cued locations. When the cues were adjacent and the Stimulus-Onset-Asynchrony was long (120 msec) subjects zoomed covert visual attention on the cued locations. Report of frequent cognitive failures was significantly associated with greater zooming (r = 0.45). Nevertheless, zooming led more to costs than to benefits. The data are discussed in terms of Norman and Shallice's (1986) model of attention control.
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U2 - 10.1016/0191-8869(94)90042-6
DO - 10.1016/0191-8869(94)90042-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0005710366
VL - 17
SP - 727
EP - 739
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 6
ER -