The sentence "I do not have to attend to what the cat will eat tomorrow" includes ten occurrences of the letter T.The Radvansky and Ashcraft text argues that people's difficulties in finding all of the Ts reflects __________.
A)channel capacity
B)a failure to read the textbook
C)top-down processing
D)connectionist modeling

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The difficulties in finding all the Ts reflect the impact of top-down processing, which involves interpreting information based on previous knowledge, expectations, and beliefs. In this case, readers' familiarity with the pattern "to + verb" likely led them to overlook some of the Ts in the sentence because their attention was selectively focused on the relevant content words.

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