ABSTRACT
The theoretical importance of attention can be seen at two different levels. First as one of the three main limits on human information processing … Second, attentional properties underlie many other psychological phenomena … The applied importance of attention is also manifest in several ways … The dangers of distracted drivers, the attentional overload of making sense of massive data bases, the rapid attention switching required in the electronic workplace, [and] the success or failure of unreliable alarms to capture attention … are all examples.
