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The emphasis in contemporary approaches to attention and performance, as we saw in the previous two chapters, is very much on theoretical constructs of a cognitive nature. However, it seems probable, both in terms of everyday experience and the relevant experimental evidence, that the physiological state of the organism while engaged in information processing is important and ought to be considered.
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Eysenck, M.W. (1982). Theories of Arousal and Performance. In: Attention and Arousal. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68390-9_4
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