A Taxonomy of External and Internal Attention
Chun MM, Golomb JD, Turk-Browne NB. A Taxonomy of External and Internal Attention. Annual Review Of Psychology 2011, 62: 73-101. PMID: 19575619, DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100427.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInternal attentionExternal attentionModality-specific inputLong-term memoryTarget of attentionPerceptual attentionAttentional mechanismsCognitive operationsTask rulesSustain focusNeural mechanismsSensory informationType of informationMemoryOrganizing frameworkClassic debateAttentionBroader levelLimited capacityCore propertiesInformationSignificant problemRepresentationTaxonomyExternal