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To what extent is attention necessary for us to process information or perform a task?
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... Assignment 2 - To what extent is attention necessary for us to process information or perform a task? All human beings have the ability to process information without even thinking about it. Simple everyday tasks can be performed without necessarily focusing all your attention to complete it. Some information is processed automatically by our brain, which saves us from having to think about. For example The cocktail party phenomenon (Cherry 1959) refers to our remarkable human ability to listen to and follow one source of auditory input in a noisy environment, where the noise is produced by many independent sources of sound or speech signals. But this does not apply for all tasks as some are far more complex than others. To find out to what extent attention is necessary for us to process information or perform tasks, I will be looking at the different ways we process information: in
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