Schneider W, Pimm-Smith M, Worden M
University of Pittsburgh.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994 Apr;4(2):177-82. doi: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90069-8.
Research in the field of attention and automaticity examines the nature of processing information with and without attention. Behavioral results show automatic processing is a continuous effect that is task specific and is affected by top-down influences. Neurobiological data show that differential attentional processing occurs in a distributed network, where initial performance is more strongly influenced by more anterior cortical structures. Recent models of attentional and autonomic processing directly incorporate physiological constraints and predict practice effects as a result of a variety of competing mechanisms.
