TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1972//
TI  - On the division of attention: a disproof of the single channel hypothesis
JO  - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (1948)
A1  - Antonis, Barbara
A1  - Allport, D. Alan
A1  - Reynolds, Patricia
SP  - 225
EP  - 235
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
N2  - In dichotic listening, subjects are apparently unable to attend simultaneously to two concurrent, auditory speech messages. However, in two experiments reported here, it is shown that people can attend to and repeat back continuous speech at the same time as taking in complex, unrelated visual scenes, or even while sight-reading piano music. In both cases performance with divided attention was very good, and in the case of sight-reading was as good as with undivided attention. There was little or no effect of the dual task on the accuracy of speech shadowing. These results are incompatible with the hypothesis that human attention is limited by the capacity of a general-purpose central processor in the nervous system. An alternative, "multi-channel", hypothesis is outlined.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-555X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335557243000102
ID  - ref1
ER  -