Attention in Brain

Question 1

Cherry (1953)

Answer 1

identified ability to attend to 2 different stimuli

Question 2

Broadbent (1957)

Answer 2

bottleneck theory

WM can only hold one stimuli at time so have to selectively attend

Question 3

Deutsch and Deutsch (1963)

Answer 3

sensory as well as WM can attend to some info

Question 4

Treisman (1964)

Answer 4

Selective attention filter at WM

Question 5

Hilgard (1973)

Answer 5

Support for early selection

EEG to shift in attention when listening

Question 6

O’Craven (1944)

Answer 6

Support for late selection

fMRI showed shift in focusing when looking at house and face

Question 7

Corbetta (1993)

Answer 7

Potential frontal lobe involvement with endogenous attention

Question 8

Hopfinger (2000)

Answer 8

Showed more parietal activation in endogenous attention

Question 9

Simon and Levin (1998)

Answer 9

Switch behind door while asking for directions

50% didn’t notice

Question 10

Kaniwisher (1987)

Answer 10

Hard to notice failures when repetition

Question 11

Sarter (2001)

Answer 11

Frontal and parietal areas mainly right hemisphere in sustained attention