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These are some parts of your brain involved in different types of attention tasks.

Broadbent’s filter model Donald Broadbent based the development of the filter model from findings by Cherry, which was concerned with the issue of selective attention.[1] Broadbent was the first to…

Stroop (1935/1992) also published what is certainly one of the most widely cited studies in the field of psychology, in which he demonstrated that stimulus information that is irrelevant to…

At the end of the 19th century, Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) argued that attention is essential for visual perception. Using himself as a subject and pages of briefly visible printed…

William James publishes “The Principles of Psychology” American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States,……

Wilhelm Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany. This was the first laboratory dedicated to psychology, and its opening is usually thought of…

1953: Colin Cherry first describes the Cocktail Party Effect (the ability to focus our listening attention on a single talker talker among a mixture of conversations and background noises, and…

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) introduced the concept of apperception, which refers to an act that is necessary for an individual to become conscious of a perceptual event. He noted that…