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Abstract: 

This article seeks to explain that a person’s ability to remain focused on goal-relevant stimuli in the presence of potentially interfering distractors depends heavily on the level and type of load involved in the processing of this goal-relevant information. It claims, based on behavioral and neuroimaging studies that, whereas a high perceptual load can eliminate distractor processing, a high load on the “frontal” cognitive control processes will increase distractor processing.

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Affiliations:  1: John Jay College.