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Evaluate critically the evidence in favour of late selection.
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SHIKHA GOSAIN Evaluate critically the evidence in favour of late selection The debate concerning the locus of attentional selection has been a moot point ever since Deutsch and Deutsch (1963) contested Broadbent's theory of early perceptual selection with their theory of late response selection (1958). The production of competing data and competing explanations over whether selection occurs early or late has been relatively unsuccessful in facilitating our understanding of attention. However, it has become increasingly apparent that the degree of processing achieved by information in visual displays is dependent on a variety of factors and, therefore, a clear-cut distinction between early selection and late selection may be inappropriate. In particular Miller (1991) identified that the processing of unattended stimuli depended on how much of the attentional capacity was engaged by the attended items. This concept was investigated further by Lavie (1995) who reviewed evidence for the effect of load (number of items)...
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