1. Dichotic Listening, Information and Attention
Following the Second World War, Broadbent attempted to understand the problems encountered by Radar operators when trying to communicate with different pilots over a single system. How was it possible for those individuals to deal with all the incoming information and decide on information that was relevant to them? ... In his explanation of these findings, Broadbent (1954, as cited in Naish, 2010) proposed that a bottleneck exist within the attentional system, consequently this is produced when large amounts of information enters the brain. ... Furthermore according to this model the brain ha...
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