Ch. 4. Attention Flashcards
Kroos and colleagues, developed a model of attention within a robot controller (Kroos et al., 2011) that can be used to enhance social engagement with the robot. What was the project called?
Articulated Head project
If we have seen the friend we are to meet across a busy street with many cars and people then _______ attention makes us aware of the traffic signals to cross safely and enables us to keep sight of our friend in the crowd.
external
What system is a kind of ‘on’ switch that organizes our behaviour for when an event might occur?
The alerting system
Whose theory can be considered the first cognitive theory of attention, and what is it called?
Broadbent’s: FILTER THEORY
Resource Theory (Kahneman) says that attention is a ______ _____ and that we can use the methaphores _____ and ____ to describe how it is used
Limited resource
spotlight, zoom
Which paradigm gave rise to Feature Integration Theory, and what is attentions “role” in it?
Visual search. Attention is the glue
How is the binding problem relevant fro feature integration theory?
How is everything integrated?
Although perception works via analysis of separate perceptual features our subjective experience has all these features bound together. This is known as:
the binding problem
What describes educed attention to a location that has already been visually examined? What part of the brain is responsible?
Inhibition of return
Neurins in the Frontal Eye Field remember
In studies of attention, what is the purpose of a visual mask presented after a stimulus?
To eliminate any afterimage
When a stimulus is presented below threshold (e.g. too fast or too dim) but its effects on behaviour can still be measured, this is known as:
subliminal perception.
The failure to notice a clearly visible target due to attention being diverted from the target is known as:
inattentional blindness.
The phenomenon whereby substantial differences between two nearly identical scenes are not noticed when presented sequentially is known as:
change blindness.
If we are watching a sequence of rapidly presented visual displays (6-20 items per second), the second of two targets cannot be identified when its presentation is close in time to that of a first target. This phenomenon is known as:
attentional blink.
Which phenomenon is studied when trying to understand how many magic tricks appear to work?
Attentional misdirection
