TY  - JOUR
TI  - Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Level Approach to Attention
T2  - Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics
IS  - Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics
KW  - attention
KW  - level approach
KW  - leading level
KW  - background level
KW  - hierarchy
KW  - the redundancy principle
AB  - The article proposes application of the level approach to attention research. Four basic principles of level-based architecture of attention are derived from theoretical premises of the level approach to cognition and the psychology of attention as well as from empirical data. The author offers a variant of empirical research program which is based on the logic of the level approach. Finally the 5-level model of attention processes organization is proposed on the basis on experimental data. The article also contains examples of author's empirical studies which are interpreted in the level approach framework. The first study demonstrates the functioning of the redundancy principle (which is one the basic principles stated in study) in the visual inspection tasks. The second study shows the differences in the efficiency of memorizing the same material and the differences in experiencing of subjective confidence in mnemonic judgments depending on the leading level of attention in task solving.
AU  - Igor Utochkin
UR  - https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2008-5-3/26848814.html
PY  - 2008
SP  - 31-66
VL  - 5