Developing an Individual Profile of Attentional Control Strategy
Developing an Individual Profile of Attentional Control Strategy
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DOI：
10.1177/0963721420924018
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发表时间：
2020-06-29
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Leber, Andrew B.
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作者：
Irons, Jessica L.;Leber, Andrew B.
是什么让一个人比另一个人更擅长控制注意力？回答这个问题的尝试主要集中在测量个人的认知能力上。然而，注意力表现的差异也可能是由于策略的不同。在这里，我们描述的研究表明，个体在选择控制注意力的方式上差异很大，许多人确实选择了次优策略。最优策略选择似乎与注意控制能力、一般认知能力甚至其他注意任务的策略选择无关。然而，它确实与努力的个体如何找到最佳策略有关，这表明策略选择可能是由主观的、特定任务的努力需求驱动的。这些发现代表了对注意力控制策略的个体特征进行全面描述的初步步骤。
What makes one person better at controlling attention than the next person? Attempts to answer this question have largely focused on measuring individuals' cognitive abilities. However, variation in attentional performance can also be due to differences in strategy. Here, we describe research showing that individuals vary dramatically in how they choose to control attention, with many reliably choosing suboptimal strategies. Optimal strategy choice appears to be unrelated to attentional control ability, general cognitive ability, or even strategy choice on other attention tasks. It does, however, correlate with how effortful individuals find the optimal strategy, which suggests that strategy choice may be driven by subjective, task-specific effort demands. These findings represent initial steps toward fully characterizing an individual profile of attentional control strategies.