Attention

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Attention

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The process of selecting or focusing on one or more stimuli

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Overt attention

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Occurs when focus coincides with the sensory orientation

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Covert attention

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The focus is independent of the sensory orientation

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Cocktail party effect

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Selective attention filters out stimuli not being attended to

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Shadowing experiments

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Subjects must focus on just one of two or more simultaneous stimuli

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Dichotic presentation

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Simultaneous delivery of different stimuli to left and right ears

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Inattentional blindness

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Failure to perceive non attended visual stimuli (demonstrated by gorilla video)

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Divided-attention tasks

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Subjects are asked to process two or more simultaneous stimuli. Show that attention is a limited resource

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Attentional spotlight

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Shifts around the environment highlighting stimuli for processing

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Attentional bottleneck

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Works as a filter to select on the most important stimuli for processing

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Early-selection model of attention

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Filtering occurs at the sensory level and non attended information never reaches higher-order cognitive processes

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Late-selection model of attention

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Filtering occurs later after substantial unconscious processing has occurred

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Best model of attention

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Combination of both

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Perceptual load

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The immediate processing demands presented by stimulus, determines how much of our perceptual resources are used

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Sustained-attention task

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A single stimulus must be held in the spotlight for an extended period of time

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Voluntary attention

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Attention is directed towards aspects of the environment according to our interests and goals (slower)

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Reflexive attention (exogenous attention)

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Involuntary reorienting of attention toward a sudden or important event (rapid)

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Feature search

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A search in which the target pops out right away due to a unique attribute

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Conjunction search

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A search based on two or more feature that together distinguish the target (eg. where’s Waldo)

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Event-related potential (ERP)

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Averaging EEG’s during several repeated trials

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Auditory attention produces a uniqe ____

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ERP

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What do the waves look like for auditory attention

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100-150 ms after a sound stimulus two large waves appear, a positive wave followed by a larger negative wave

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P20-50 effect

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A positive wave early in the recording

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P3 effect

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Occurs later in ERP and may reflect higher order processing

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Visual P1 effect

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The appearance of a positive wave that occurs when the stimulus is a valid cue but not invalid

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Superior colliculus in attention

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Guides movement of the eyes towards objects of attention

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Pulvinar in attention

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Involved in orienting, shifting attention, and filtering of stimuli in visual processing

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Lateral intraparietal area

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Crucial for endogenous attention in monkeys (intraparietal sulcus in humans)

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Frontal eye field

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Directs gaze according to cognitive goals rather than the characteristics of the stimuli

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Event-related fMRI

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Allows visualization of network activity during top-down attentional processing

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Tempoproparietal junction (TPJ)

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Steers attention toward novel or unexpected stimuli

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Consciousness

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Dependent on attention, may be defined as being aware that we are conscious coupled with our perception of what is going on in our minds

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Default mode network

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Active when we are doing something reflective, and inactive when we are doing something intentional

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Cognitively impenetrable

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Basic neural processing operations that cannot be experience through introspection

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Easy problem of consciousness

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Understanding how particular patterns of neural activity create specific conscious experience

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Hard problem of consciousness

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Understanding brain processes that produce people subjective experiences of their conscious perspectives

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Qualia

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Purely subjective experiences of perceptions, impossible to communicate to others

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Executive function

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The high level control needed to attend to important stimuli and make plans

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Frontal lobe injury changes

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-Persistent apathy, bouts of euphoria
-Impulsive behavior
-Lack of concern for past or future
-Forgetfulness
-Trouble task shifting

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Perseverate

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Show repeated behaviours

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Neuroeconomics

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Study of brain mechanisms during economic decision making

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Valuation system

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: ranks choices based on their perceived worth and value. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

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Choice system

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Sifts through the choices and makes a decision. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex