Research found that there is a dissociation between orienting and an independent measure of processing resources. Understanding this dissociation effect has implications for orienting theory and its application in areas such as workload assessment, assessing attentional dysfunctions in clinical subgroups, and in learning tasks. Pavlovian conditioning Pavlovian conditioning is a form of associative learning. As such, research on Pavlovian conditioning provides valuable information about basic learning processes in humans. It is often regarded that the field of cognitive psychology originated from the study of attention.
Contemporary research is still concerned with a variety of attentional processes.
One area of research uses the psychological refractory period paradigm. Understanding this effect has implications for basic decisional and attentional processes. Basic research in attention has a wide application. A particularly interesting area is in the study of driving behaviour. Schizophrenia Psychophysiology Experiments Copyright.