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In the last twenty years there has been a remarkable renaissance in research on attention, dominated by the influence of Broadbent (1958, 1971), who has succeeded in synthesising much of the work into a coherent whole. Within the area of attention several themes have developed almost independently, in particular those of selective attention (Broadbent, 1958; Treisman, 1960, 1969; Moray, 1969) and vigilance (Broadbent, 1971; Mackworth, 1970; Jerison, 1970; Buckner and McGrath, 1963). The degree to which progress in these two fields has been largely independent is underlined by the structure of the review by Swets and Kristofferson (1970).
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Moray, N. (1976). Attention, Control, and Sampling Behaviour. In: Sheridan, T.B., Johannsen, G. (eds) Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control. NATO Conference Series, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2523-9_19
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