El artículo presenta una teoría multimodal de la atención. Se supone que la atención es flexible, pudiendo hacer un análisis perceptual de la información de distinta profundidad. La información objetivo es seleccionada al nivel del análisis sensorial por los modos tempranos de la atención pero no lo es por los modos tardíos hasta después del análisis semántico. Mientras el sistema de análisis perceptual cambia de los modos tempranos a los tardíos, se recoge más información de las vías no-objetivo, pero requiere más capacidad para atender a la vía objetivo. El estudio comprueba con cinco experimentos los dos supuestos principales, a saber: que la atención requiere capacidad y que la cantidad de capacidad requerida se incrementa de los modos tempranos a los tardíos. En la discusión general los autores afirman que los datos apoyan estos dos supuestos de la teoría multimodal.
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