To explain dichotic listening findings such as the observation that a participant usually notices when his or her own name is embedded in the ignored channel, Treisman (1969) proposed that
A)unattended information is not completely excluded from higher analysis, but merely attenuated.
B)attention can be explained only in terms of late, rather than early, selection mechanisms.
C)relatively unique types of stimuli, such as names, do not require attention for processing.
D)familiar stimuli that have been learned previously by participants do not require attention for processing.

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Treisman proposed that unattended information is not completely excluded from higher analysis, but merely attenuated. This explains why participants tend to notice their own name in the ignored channel, as it is a relatively unique and meaningful stimulus that is still processed to some extent even when attention is directed elsewhere.

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