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Mapping attention across multiple media tasks
DOI:10.1080/15213269.2022.2161576.png)
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Paying attention to media requires continuously selecting and processing relevant information while filtering out numerous competing stimuli. Although the factors that drive attention toward or away from a single media task are relatively well characterized, there is a lack of understanding regarding how attention to media functions in the presence of multiple, concurrent tasks. In this manuscript, we report findings from four experiments investigating this question. Results indicate that, rather than attention being based on a strict hierarchy between primary and secondary tasks, attentional resources are distributed across concurrent media tasks based on the (relative) rewardingness and effortfulness of each task. More rewarding tasks elicited more attention, and the attention-capturing influence of rewarding secondary tasks was magnified when the primary task was more cognitively effortful. These results provide support for recent theoretical advancements in media psychology research and point to promising future directions using updated models of motivated attention to predict the allocation of attentional resources across multiple concurrent tasks.
Keyword:
PRIORITY MAPS
COGNITIVE MAP
MULTITASKING
CORTEX
RESOURCES
SALIENCE
ACCOUNT
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2.6
论文数:
741
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3.4K
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Parsing the resource pie: Using STRTs to measure attention to mediated messages
MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY
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