Mei-Ching Lien, professor of psychology, and undergraduate student Dominick Tolomeo recently published a research paper with their collaborator Eric Ruthruff, psychology professor at the University of New Mexico, in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. This study found that multitasking did not make people more vulnerable to visual distractors, implying distractor suppression requires little attentional resources.
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