Difficulty matters: Unspecific attentional demands as a major determinant of performance highlighted by clinical studies

Mario Bonato; Marco Zorzi; Carlo Umiltà

doi:10.1017/S0140525X13000927

Difficulty matters: Unspecific attentional demands as a major determinant of performance highlighted by clinical studies

Mario Bonato, Marco Zorzi, Carlo Umiltà

Istituto di Neuroriabilitazione Motoria San Camillo

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The cognitive impairments shown by brain-damaged patients emphasize the role of task difficulty as a major determinant for performance. We discuss the proposal of Kurzban et al. in light of our findings on right-hemisphere-damaged patients, who show increasing awareness deficits for the contralesional hemispace when engaged with resource-consuming dual tasks. This phenomenon is readily explained by the assumption of unspecific depletable resources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	680-681
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	36
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13000927
Publication status	Published - Dec 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Behavioral Neuroscience
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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