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Processing Speed and Attentional Resources

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The brain’s transmission rate and speed of information processing influence the quantity of information that can be evaluated and consequently constrain attentional capacity. Processing speed, as measured by reaction time, was studied intermittently as an indicator of individual differences in mental function in the late nineteenth century, but this line of investigation was essentially abandoned until the 1970s [1].

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