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@article{citeulike:92727, abstract = {Processing capacity--defined as the relative ability to perform mental work in a unit of time--is a critical construct in cognitive psychology and is central to theories of visual attention. The unambiguous use of the construct, experimentally and theoretically, has been hindered by both conceptual confusions and the use of measures that are at best only coarsely mapped to the construct. However, more than 25 years ago, J. T. Townsend and F. G. Ashby (1978) suggested that the hazard function on the response time (RT) distribution offered a number of conceptual advantages as a measure of capacity. The present study suggests that a set of statistical techniques, well-known outside the cognitive and perceptual literatures, offers the ability to perform hypothesis tests on RT-distribution hazard functions. These techniques are introduced, and their use is illustrated in application to data from the contingent attentional capture paradigm.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. mjwl9@psu.edu}, author = {Wenger, M. J. and Gibson, B. S.}, citeulike-article-id = {92727}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.30.4.708}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15301619}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15301619}, doi = {10.1037/0096-1523.30.4.708}, issn = {0096-1523}, journal = {J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform}, keywords = {capture, modeling, rt}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {708--719}, posted-at = {2008-08-27 20:43:07}, priority = {2}, title = {Using hazard functions to assess changes in processing capacity in an attentional cuing paradigm.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.30.4.708}, volume = {30}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:92727 L3 - citeulike-article-id:92727 N2 - Processing capacity--defined as the relative ability to perform mental work in a unit of time--is a critical construct in cognitive psychology and is central to theories of visual attention. The unambiguous use of the construct, experimentally and theoretically, has been hindered by both conceptual confusions and the use of measures that are at best only coarsely mapped to the construct. However, more than 25 years ago, J. T. Townsend and F. G. Ashby (1978) suggested that the hazard function on the response time (RT) distribution offered a number of conceptual advantages as a measure of capacity. The present study suggests that a set of statistical techniques, well-known outside the cognitive and perceptual literatures, offers the ability to perform hypothesis tests on RT-distribution hazard functions. These techniques are introduced, and their use is illustrated in application to data from the contingent attentional capture paradigm. IS - 4 JF - J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform SN - 0096-1523 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. mjwl9@psu.edu EP - 719 TI - Using hazard functions to assess changes in processing capacity in an attentional cuing paradigm. VL - 30 SP - 708 KW - capture KW - modeling KW - rt AU - Wenger, MJ AU - Gibson, BS PY - 2004/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.30.4.708 ER -