Attention and automaticity: Toward a theoretical integration

We sketch an initial version of a theory intended to account for the role o f attention in the acquisition and expression of automaticity, and we test some initial predictions. The theory combines Logan's instance theory of au tomaticity and Bundesen's theory of visual attention, with Bundesen's theor y determining what Logan's theory learns. We report four experiments that t est the assumption that subjects learn what they report explicitly do not l earn what they do not report explicitly. The experiments provide partial su pport for the predictions and encourage further development of the combined theory.