Primary source material:
- Broadbent, Donald E. 1952. Listening to one of two synchronous messages. Journal of Experimental Psychology 44: 51-55.
- Broadbent, Donald E. 1958. Perception and Communication. Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 0080090907.
- Broadbent, Donald E. 1961. Behavior. Basic Books. ISBN 0465005993.
- Broadbent, Donald E. 1962. Attention and the perception of speech Scientific American 206: 143-51.
- Broadbent, Donald E. 1973. In Defense of Empirical Psychology. Methuen young books. ISBN 041676780X.
- Broadbent, Donald E. 1993. The Simulation of Human Intelligence (Wolfson College Lectures). Blackwell. ISBN 0631185879.
- Broadbent, Donald E., and James T. Reason (eds.). 1990. Human Factors in Hazardous Situations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019852191X.
- Pribram, Karl H., and Donald E. Broadbent (eds.). 1970. Biology of Memory. Academic Press, 1970. ISBN 0125643500.
Secondary source material:
- Baddeley, Alan, and Lawrence Weiskrantz (eds.). 1995. Attention: Selection, Awareness and Control. A Tribute to Donald Broadbent. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198523742.
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