Research yields support for the notion that display design can split attention, increase cognitive load, and reduce transfer learning.
However, the typical platform of such visualization frequently overloads the limited working memory causing split attention and redundancy effects.
Mr. Newell expressed charming displeasure at our reliance (as a nation) on automatic transmissions, our poor range (as a city) of vegetarian restaurants, our persistent need (as a crowd) to split attention between the stage and our phones.
The second type, extraneous cognitive load, is caused by factors that aren't central to the material to be learnt, such as presentation methods or activities that split attention between multiple sources of information, and these should be minimized as much as possible.
With two people sharing session time, it's not easy for even an experienced counselor to split attention 50-50, says Doyle.
For young or less experienced drivers having split attention to the road is a very dangerous scenario; up until the last several years the primary concern for drivers was driving while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol.
Several factors can be proposed to account for this differential ability to split attention across and within hemifields.
The fact that we failed to observe it in our within-hemifield configuration could imply that it is intrinsically more difficult to split attention within than across hemifields and that attending to two locations at the same time is only possible if the task demands at the primary location do not exceed a certain level.
Alternatively, participants might be able to split attention between the two tasks.
Internet surfing, Slack chatting, IRL interaction — all daily multitasking that splits your attention, ups your stress and stunts productivity.
