Effect of acute stress on selective attention
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- TAKENAKA Ippei
- Mukogawa Women's University
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- KAWAHARA Jun-Ichiro
- Chukyo University:National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
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- KUMADA Takatsune
- RIKEN
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- Other Title
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- 急性ストレスが選択的注意に及ぼす影響
- キュウセイ ストレス ガ センタクテキ チュウイ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ
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Abstract
In cognitive psychology, increasing task load impairs effortful processing such as selective attention and working memory operations (accessing/updating). However, it is unclear whether stress, which is assumed to be a factor that consumes cognitive resources, has a similar effect as task load on selective attention and working memory. Herein a literature review reveals that the apparently mixed findings with regard to working memory can be interpreted based on task load; the effect of stress emerges only with high task loads. In contrast, psycho-social stress tends to impair selective attention, but physical stress may improve it. Moreover, some recent studies have found that psycho-social stress interacts with perceptual load, suggesting that load and stress manipulations consume common cognitive resources.
Journal
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- The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science
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The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science 31 (1), 42-56, 2012
The Japanese Psychonomic Society
