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CHAPTER 4 - ATTENTION Flashcards

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what is attention?

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the mental process of concentrating effort on a location, stimulus, or mental event

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what is selective attention?

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attending to one thing while ignoring others

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what is a distraction?

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one stimulus interfering with the process of another stimulus

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what is divided attention?

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paying attention to more than one thing at a time

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what is attentional capture ?

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the rapid shifting of attention usually caused by a stimulus

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what is visual scanning?

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movement from the eyes from one location to another

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what did Colin Cherry discover?

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that participants could report messages presented to the attended ear but could not report what is being presented to the unattended ear

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what technique did Cherry use in his experiments?

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dichotic listening

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how does dichotic listening work?

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presenting different stimuli to different ears

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what was Cherry’s experiment procedure?

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required participants to focus on one message in one ear and repeat what they heard out loud

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participants focusing on one message in one ear and repeating what they heard out loud is called..

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shadowing

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what is the cocktail party effect?

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the ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli

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what are the 4 parts of Broadbent’s Filter Model of Attention?

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sensory memory
filter
detector
short term memory

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what occurs in sensory memory?

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the holding of all incoming information lasting a fraction of a second before transfer to the filter

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what occurs in the filter?

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identification of the message being attended to based on physical characteristics and only lets the attended message through

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what are considered physical characteristics from the filter’s POV

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speaker’s tone, pitch, speed of talking, and accent

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what occurs in the detector?

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the processing of information from the attended message to determine higher level characteristics

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what are the higher level characteristics that the detector determines?

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its meaning

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what occurs in short-term memory?

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the holding of information for a short time period before transferring it to long-term memory

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what kind of model is Broadbent’s Filter Model of Attention

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early selection model

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why is Broadbent’s model considered an early selection model?

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the filter eliminates the unattended ear’s message near the beginning of information flow

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what significant event occurred in Neville Moray’s experiment of dichotic listening?

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participants were presented their name in the unattended ear’s message

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why was the detection of participants’ names in Neville Moray’s experiment significant?

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does not follow Broadbent’s filter model; the filter is only supposed to let in one message

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explain top-down processing in terms of attention and hearing your name

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attention is going from one ear to another based on the previously known meaning of a word

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who modified Broadbent’s model?

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Anne Treisman

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how did Anne Treisman modify Broadbent’s model?

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proposed selection occurs in 2 stages occurring in the placement of the filter portion and replaced it with the attenuator and dictionary unit

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what are the 3 properties involving the attenuator ?

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physical characteristics
language
meaning

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describe physical characteristics in terms of the attenuator

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how high/low pitched, and fast/slow the stimulus is

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describe the language in terms of the attenuator

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how the message groups syllables or words

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describe the meaning in terms of the attenuator

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how the sequences of the words create meaningful phrases

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what was Anne Treisman’s model of attention also known as?

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leaky filter model

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what would occur after the messages have been identified in the attenuator?

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the attended messages passes through at full strength

unattended messages are still present but weaker

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what is the dictionary unit?

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it contains words stored in memory in which each have a threshold of being activated

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what is the threshold in the dictionary unit?

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the smallest signal strength that can be barely detected

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what kind of threshold do common or important words have?

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low thresholds

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what kind of thresholds do uncommon or unimportant words have?

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high thresholds

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what was Donald MacKay’s, experiment?

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participants listened to ambiguous sentences that could be interpreted in more than one way

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what important aspect initiated MacKay’s

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biasing words

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how do late selection models work?

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demonstrate how incoming information is processed to the level of meaning before being selected

40
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Nilli Lavie introduced what?

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the concepts of processing capacity and perceptual load

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what is processing capacity?

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refers to the amount of information people can handle and sets a limit on their ability to process incoming information

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what is perceptual load?

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relates to the difficulty of a task; has low and high load task properties

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describe how low-load tasks impact perceptual load

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uses a small amount of the person’s processing capacity therefore are well practiced and easy

44
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describe how high-load tasks impact perceptual load

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take up more of a person’s processing capacity therefore are not well practiced and difficult

45
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what is the stroop effect?

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demonstrates how task-irrelevant stimuli are powerful in performing a given task

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What did Daniel Kahneman propose/contribute?

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related arousal and performance using attentional control

47
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what did Daniel Kahneman propose?

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as arousal increases, performance increases to an extent to which after too much arousal performance will decrease

48
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what is central vision?

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the area one is looking at

49
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what is peripheral vision?

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everything off to the side

50
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what part of the retina functions in central vision?

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fovea

51
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what is overt attention

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shifting attention from one place to another by moving the eye

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in overt attention: the location of _____ is known to the ____ observer

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attention; outside

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what is stimulus salience?

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the physical properties of a stimulus such as colour, contrast, or movement

54
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capturing attention using stimulus salience is an example of….

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bottom-up processing

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what is a saliency map?

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analyzing characteristics like colour, orientation, and intensity at a location

56
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when scanning a scene involves using scene schemas, what is that an example of?

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top-down processing

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what is a scene schema?

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an observer’s knowledge about what typically contained in a particular scene

58
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what is covert attention?

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occurs when shifting attention while keeping the eyes still and the location of attention is unknown to an outsider observer

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who asked if paying attention to a location improves one’s ability to respond to stimulus presented there?

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Michael Posner

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what term did Posner coin?

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pre-cueing

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what is pre-cueing?

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determines whether presenting a cue indicating where a test stimulus will appear enhances the processing of the target stimulus

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what happens when a target is presented very soon after the cue?

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faster reaction times to target stimulus in its valid location

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what happens when a target is presented long after the cue?

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inhibition of return effect, thus a slower reaction time in the valid location

64
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what are the 2 ways attention affects physiological reasoning

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increases activity in different brain regions

changes the representation of objects across the cortex

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what is attentional warping?

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when more space is allotted to categories that are being searched for

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what is the effect of attentional warping?

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large areas will respond to the desired object or things related to it

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who required their participants to carry out 2 tasks simultaneously to achieve divided attention?

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Walter Schneider and Richard Shiffrin

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what was the procedure of Schneider and Shiffrin’s experiment?

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  1. holding information about target stimuli in memory

2. paying attention to a series of distractor to determine if the target stimuli is present among the distractor stimuli

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what is automatic processing?

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processing that occurs without intention and at a cost of only some cognitive resources

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what are the 4 properties of automatic processing?

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occurs without intention
one is unaware of it
does not interfere with other processes
unaffected by practice

71
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what is mind wandering?

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thoughts coming from within

72
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what is another name for mind wandering?

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day dreaming

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what is mind wandering associated to?

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default mode network

74
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what is inattentional blindness?

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when people are unaware of clearly visible stimuli if they are not directing their attention to them

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what is inattentional deafness?

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when focusing on a difficult task results in impaired hearing

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what is change detection?

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procedure where one picture is presented followed by another and determine what is different about each one

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what is change blindness?

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the difficulty in detecting changes in scenes

78
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what is considered an adaptive feature in terms of the perceptual system?

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focusing on small portions of the environment makes optimal use of the limited processing resources

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what is binding?

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the process in which features such as colour, form, motion, and location are combined to create our perception of a coherent object

80
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what is the binding problem?

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how individual features become bound together

81
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what are the 2 stages of the feature integration theory?

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  1. pre-attentive stage

2. focused attention stage

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what occurs in the pre-attentive stage?

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features of the object are analyzed independently in separate areas of the brain and are not yet associated with the specific object

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what occurs in the focused attention stage?

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an objects independent features are combined thus attention is focused on it

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Anne Treisman and Hiliary Schmidt did an experiment involving what?

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illusory conjunctions

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what are illusory conjunctions?

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when combinations of features are from different stimuli

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in what stage does illusory conjunctions occur within of the feature integration theory?

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pre-attentive stage

87
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what is Balint’s syndrome

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involves the inability to focus on individual objects

88
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what is the term exogenous related to

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stimulus based attention

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what is endogenous related to

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goal-directed attention

90
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what is the ventral attention network

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controls attention based on salience

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what is the dorsal attention network

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controls attention based on top-down processing

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what is effective connectivity?

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how easily activity can travel along a particular pathaway

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what is synchronization?

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when signals from 2 different stimuli become synchronized

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what is the executive attention network?

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involves processes that involve controlling attention and dealing with conflicting responses

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