Note that this flexibility might occur in terms of either the splitting of attention on an individual trial, or in terms of some proportion of trials with attention to each task; we cannot distinguish between those possibilities, as indeed no other prior study has been able to do.
After all, the split second of attention Ms. Curry devoted to Ms. Gifford could have been spent worrying about the show.
It felt really great to get that split-second of attention from a guy that I respect and admire as both a player and, even more importantly, as a committed humanitarian.
Predicting the sizes and compositions of the resulting factions, given the structure of the social interaction network before the split, attracted a lot of attention.
In form B, which calculated a mass of split attention, numbers from 1 to 13 and letter from A to L had to be connected.
The disconnect between the established esteem of Savile Row and the youthful upstarts who have something more urgent to communicate is fractious to say the least, and the tension that has been slowly simmering in the world of menswear has suddenly come to the boil thanks to a packed schedule that has split the attention of the industry.
But rather than make one person the center of attention, Houseparty splits the screen up to 8 times so everyone can talk and laugh together.
For a split second, I was the center of attention, as gray-haired men looked up to check me out, then returned to slurping noodle soup and conversing animatedly in Cantonese.
However, in a follow-up to their earlier study, McMains & Somers (2005) investigated the processing efficiency of split-spotlight attention mechanisms compared with that of a 'zoom lens' unitary beam.
Research on these instructional design effects has focussed on the instructional benefits for novices of reducing split attention between spatially or temporally disparate but related elements of information.
