- Attentional Spotlight
- Dichotic Presentation
- Attentional Bottleneck

Examples of Divided Attention Tasks

A divided attention task is a task in which the participant is asked to simultaneously focus attention on two or more stimuli. 

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Also called consciously or endogenously controlled attention, voluntary shifts of attention come from within; they are the conscious, top-down directing of attention toward specific aspects of the environment, according to our interests and goals.

Voluntary Attention

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

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