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Chapter 3 - Search and Detection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2025

Kenneth J. Malmberg
Kenneth J. Malmberg
Affiliation:
University of South Florida
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Summary

Investigations of the contribution of controlled versus automatic information processing are presented using two superficially different procedures as examples: visual search and episodic recognition memory. Whereas most frameworks consider the possibility that tasks may be performed either in a controlled fashion or automatically, the General Theory assumes that both types of information processing may contribute to their performance. Thus, the empirical question is the extent to which each type of information processing contributes to task performance and under what conditions.

Keywords

serial processingparaellel processingunitizationfamiliarityrecollection
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Human Memory
The General Theory and Its Various Models
 , pp. 51 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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