Attention

Question 1

Intraparietal sulcus/Intraparietal lobule (Ips/IPL)

Answer 1

Controlled, preparing to attention and setting goals

Question 2

FEF

Answer 2

Frontal eye fields

Question 3

ventral frontal cortex
(VFC)

Answer 3

Automatic attentional orienting

Question 4

TPJ

Answer 4

temporoparietal junction

Question 5

Endogenous attention:

Answer 5

When an individual chooses what to
pay attention to (goals and intention)

• Top-down processing
• Intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and FEF

Question 6

Exogenous attention:

Answer 6

When stimuli in the environment
drives us to pay attention

• Bottom-up processing
• Temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) and VFC

Question 7

Spatial neglect is caused by

Answer 7

Damage to the right hemisphere, ventral parietal cortex

Question 8

Spacial neglect causes

Answer 8

Left side of the world is out of awareness

Question 9

Balint Syndrome is caused by

Answer 9

Bilateral parietal and occipital lobe damage

Question 10

Balint Syndrome causes

Answer 10

Can’t focus on more than one thing; Can see local features but struggle to see global features

Question 11

Optic ataxia:

Answer 11

problems with grasping or visual
control

Question 12

Oculomotor apraxia:

Answer 12

Inability voluntarily shift gaze

Question 13

Simultanagnosia:

Answer 13

Inability to identify or use more than one object in a scene

Question 14

Sustained attention (Vigilance)

Answer 14

Top-down attention: Maintain focus on one input for a long period of time

Question 15

Divided attention (Multitasking)

Answer 15

Top-down attention: Shifting attentional focus between tasks

Question 16

Selective attention

Answer 16

Top-down attention: Focus on one input and ignore other information

Question 17

Broadbent’s early selection filter model

Answer 17

filter information at the level of perception, before information
is processed for meaning

Question 18

Treisman’s attenuator model

Answer 18

early filter dials down the influence of unattended material

Question 19

Late selection filter models

Answer 19

process input to the level of the meaning, and then select what we want to process further

Question 20

Stroop Task

Answer 20

The name of colors in various colors experiments

Question 21

The load theory

Answer 21

Attentional filtering (selection) can occur at different points of processing, depends on the amount of information

Question 22

load theory: difficult task with a high load

Answer 22

early filter

Question 23

load theory: easier task with a low load

Answer 23

late filter

Question 24

Change blindness

Answer 24

The failure to detect changes in stimuli

Question 25

Flicker technique paradigm

Answer 25

Two similar visual images are presented with an interstimulus “mask”

Question 26

Inattentional blindness

Answer 26

A failure to attend to new or unexpected events in attended-to environment

Question 27

Posner’s (1980) attentional spotlight theory

Answer 27

Attention is about focusing on space and ignoring what is located ‘outside’ of the focused space

Question 28

Feature Search

Answer 28

Search for an object that differs from the distractors based on one feature * Bottom-up attention (automatic)

Question 29

Conjunction Search

Answer 29

Search for an object that differs from distractors across many features * Top-down attention (voluntary)

Question 30

Overt visual attention

Answer 30

attending to something with your eye movements

Question 31

Covert visual attention

Answer 31

attending to something without eye movements

Question 32

Attentional capture

Answer 32

information to be automatically processed