D. E. Broadbent

As the occupational psychologist D.E. Broadbent expressed it, “attention had to be brought back into respectability.” Gradually the individual came to be viewed as a processor of information.

…was that put forward by Broadbent in 1958. He postulated that the many signals entering the central nervous system in parallel with one another are held for a very short time in a temporary “buffer.” At this point the signals are analyzed for features such as their location in space,…