Attention and task difficulty: when is performance facilitated?

Under certain conditions, when initiating a trial is made difficult, task performance improves as the task becomes harder to do. This counterintuitive finding has led to a distinction between the motor difficulty and the cognitive difficulty of a task. The present report summarizes three replication...

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Published in:	Learning & Motivation Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 36 - 48
Main Authors:	Washburn, David A., Putney, R. Thompson
Format:	Article
Published:	Academic Press Inc. February 2001
Subjects:	Performance Cognition Motor learning Attention Task analysis Psychology
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