Chapter 22 - Attention/Consciousness

Question 1

Explain Case R.P

Answer 1

mental neglect of one side, problem when to trust people, not being attentive to some info

right posterior parietotemporal lesions

Question 2

Define attention

Answer 2

a selective narrowing or focusing of awareness to part of the sensory environment or stimuli

selective awareness of information from maps

Question 3

What is consciousness

Answer 3

an awareness of information and an awareness of awareness

Question 4

What does Koch think about the relationship between consciousness and attention

Answer 4

require two distinct brain processes
attention = top down process that selects information (specific features)
consciousness = not so selective, summarizes all information about environment (gist)

Question 5

Define automatic processes

Answer 5

processes performed without intention, involuntarily, without awareness
is bottom-up

Question 6

Explain Treisman’s model of feature search

Answer 6

occurs when you search for a target object in a visual field based on distinct features

the spotlight can be focused on different features, trick is to combine them all together

Question 7

Are all features of in image, object, etc. equivalent?

Answer 7

no, sad pops out over happy

the amygdala is primed to detect fear-related stimuli