Modulating irrelevant motion perception by varying attentional load in an unrelated task.

ATTENTION; SELECTIVITY (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY

Presents research which tested Lavie's theory of attention, which proposes that the processing load in a relevant task determines the extent to which irrelevant distractors are processed. Methods; Results showing reduced motion processing during high load in the linguistic task; Perception of irrelevant distractors depending on relevant processing load.