Lab attention findings only confirm old principles of pertinence

Evidence

As is the case here, laboratory research into attention often only confirms what we suspected already: it is in fact the filtering operation performed by the old principle of pertinence that is so strikingly confirmed and illustrated by Simons’ experiment. Once you have taken the time to re-situate the functioning of individual attention in the relational and media frameworks by which it is thoroughly overdetermined – instead of making out that laboratory conditions and magnetic resonance devices give us access to the truth about human behaviour – the data gathered by experimental psychology and the neurosciences proves to be fascinating and essential to a better understanding of attention. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 389

Categorization

• XREF: Rejects neurocentrism — situating lab findings within relational/media frameworks — aligning with the reader’s Frankfurt School interest in media overdetermination. — connects to: Laboratory attention studies are structurally blind to relational value — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 395

Broader Connections

• Laboratory attention studies are structurally blind to relational value #corroborates (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 395