Attention Flashcards
1
Q
What is attention?
A
Filtering out irrelevant information to focus on something specific
2
Q
Who is Mike Posner?
A
Attentional neuroscientist
3
Q
What is exogenous attention?
A
reflexive attention (eg. responding to a flash of light)
Bottom-up processing
4
Q
What is endogenous attention?
A
Internal attention (eg. consciously paying attention)
top-down processing
