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Richard M. Shiffrin

American psychologist

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theory of attention

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    In attention: Memory and habituation

    …advanced by the American psychologists Richard M. Shiffrin and Walter Schneider in 1977 on the basis of experiments involving visual search. Their theory of detection, search, and attention distinguishes between two modes of processing information: controlled search and automatic detection. Controlled search is highly demanding of attentional capacity and is…

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