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Psychologists Observe Attentional Allocation

June 23, 2011 by

Once we learn the relationship between a cue and its consequences - say, the sound of a bell and the appearance of the white ice cream truck bearing our favorite chocolate cone - do we turn our attention to that bell whenever we hear it? Or do we tuck the information away and marshal our resources to learning other, novel cues - a recorded jingle, or a blue truck? Psychologi...

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