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what is conciousness

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sensory awareness of the environment

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access consciousness - Block 1995

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being aware of something - we are unable to name it/remember it ect.

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phenomenal consciousness - Block 1995

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refers to the experiential aspects - what it feels like to taste chocolate eg

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conscious - freud

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thoughts and feelings we are aware of

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preconscious - freud

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material you are not currently aware of but which is readily available

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unconscious - freud

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material which is unavailable to consciousness under most circumstances

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non-conscious - frued

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refers to bodily processes which cannot be experienced through sensory awareness

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structuralists - wudnt - introspection

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understand components of consciousness eg the smell of a rose

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behaviourists - watson

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concept of consciousness should be eliminated from psychology - criticising the value of introspection in psyc

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hypnosis

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altered state of consciousness in which people are suggestible and behave as though they are in a trance

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where else is hypnosis used

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by dentists and doctors as an anaesthetic

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how do psychologists use hypnosis

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to help clients reduce anxiety, overcome fears or lessen perception of chronic pain

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how do the police use hypnosis

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to prompt memories of witness

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5 key questions in consciousness research

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  1. altered states of consciousness
  2. role of attention
  3. importance of unconscious processes
  4. the hard problem
  5. cognitive neuropsychology
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what is the ‘hard problem’ - chalmers 1995

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the question of how physical processes un the brain give rise to subjective experiences

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how is cognitive neuropsychology a key question in consciousness research

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effects of brain damage -

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automatic cognitive processes

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relatively unconscious - we have little awareness of their operation

  • no capacity limitations
  • dont require attention
  • very hard to modify once learned
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controlled cognitive processes

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associated with conscious awareness of what is being processed

  • limited capacity
  • require attention
  • can be used flexibly in changing circumstances
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what is cognitive research interested in

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cognitive correlates of consciousness

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what doesnt cognitive research explain

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conscious experience but aids our understanding of the role of consciousness in cognition

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what cognitive processes are associated with consciousness - cognitive research

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selective attention - by focussing ones consciousness on a particular stimulus and ignoring others we become aware of items attended to

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what is selective attention

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being able to focus ones auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli
eg cocktail party effect - being able to tune into one person

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what type of stimuli capture out attention resulting in availability to consciousness

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  • sudden changes
  • novel stimuli
  • intense stimuli
  • repetitive stimuli
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when do models of selective attention differ

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when material is selected for attention

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early selection models

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very little information about stimulus is processed before selection occurs - eg braodbent filter model

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late selection models

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more information eg semantics is produced before selection occurs

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what did broadbent - filter model use

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dichotic listening task - three digits presented to each ear

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what did participants have to do in broadbents filter model

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write down as many digits as possible done in one of two ways - ear-by-ear or pair-by-pair

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what did broadbents filter model find

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better recall ear-by-ear than pair-by-pair

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what was the conclusion of broadbents filter model

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attention can only be focused on one channel of information at a time and switching channels is difficult

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what is the flow of the filter model - broadbent 4

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  1. info to sensory organs
  2. stored in sensory memory
  3. filter allows only attended info to pass for further processing
  4. passed onto working memory (STM) and communicates with (LTM)
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early selection model - processing

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only sensory info processed before attentional filter

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moray 1959

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*ps told to switch attention from one ear to the other during dichotic listening task

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what did moray find

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were unable transfer attention from one ear to the other when given a verbal instruction to unattended ear

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what would broadbent say about morays findings

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that this info should have never been unattended - early selection based on physical characteristics of stimulus - hence meaning (instruction) should not be processed by unattended ear

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attenuation model of selective attention - treisman 1960

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  • early selection model

* BUT unattended material can get through in a weakened (attenuated) form

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threshold mechanism - attenuation model of selective attention

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some info (based on semantic importance) may grab ones attention from unattended stream

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lowered threshold - attenuation model of selective attention

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for things like ones own name, words like ‘fire’

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visual perception

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assumption that visual perception is a conscious process

-we are consciously aware of the objects we are looking at

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change blindness

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inability to notice that an object has moved,changes/disappeared

*no conscious awareness of large changes in the visual scene

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inattentional blindness - Simons & Chabris 1999

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  • gorilla interrupts teams passing ball
  • asked to count no. of passes made by one team
  • 50% dont notice the woman in gorilla costume
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Simons & Chabris - gorilla costume was black - % of detected passes made by white team

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42%

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Simons & Chabris - gorilla costume was black - % of detected passes made by black team

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83%

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mere exposure effect

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prefer stimuli we have encountered before even if we are unaware of previous encounters

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kunst-wilson & zajonc 1990 - procedure - perception without awareness

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  • novel black and white patterns presented too quickly for p’s to be aware of them
  • later presented pairs of patterns (1 new,1 old)
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kunst-wilson & zajonc 1990 - perception without awareness - what was p’s preference

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chose old patterns even though they showed no conscious recognition of old patterns in explicit memory test

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kunst-wilson & zajonc 1990 - perception without awareness - unconscious encounter

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unconscious encounter with patterns changed their emotional responses to them (even with no conscious memory for them)

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Vicar 1957 - subliminal perception

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  • flashed ‘eat popcorn, drink Coca-Cola’ for 1/300th sec during cinema film
  • claimed 18% increase Coca-Cola sales, 58% popcorn??
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was Vicar 1957 - subliminal perception evidence of perception without awareness

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  • too fast to be consciously seen, but evidence of behavioural change???
  • however film (Picnic) contained scenes of eating/ drinking

Could this explain sales increases?

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Persaud & Mcleos 08 - perception without awareness - method

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  • presented ‘b’ or ‘h’ for 10ms (short duration) or 15ms (long) duration
  • Instructed to respond with letter that has not been presented
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Persaud & Mcleos 08 - what did it examine

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*willingness to bet on accuracy of their decisions
if consciously aware of letter, they should be willing to bet!

*Much more willing to bet with longer presentation even though they were generally correct even with shorter duration

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Persaud & Mcleos 08 - generally correct responses suggested that

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some processing of shorter duration stimulus had occurred, however unwillingness to bet on accuracy suggests they were unaware of it.

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what did merikle et al o1 conclude about perception without conscious awareness

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‘some processing of shorter duration stimulus had occurred, however unwillingness to bet on accuracy suggests they were unaware of it.

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what are Merikle,Smilek & Eastwoods two main thresholds for conscious awareness of a visual stimulus

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subjective threshold

objective threshold

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subjective threshold

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defined by an individuals failure to report conscious awareness of a stimulus

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objective threshold

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defined by an individuals ability to make accurate forced choice decisions about a stimulus

  • often show awareness of a stimulus assessed by objective threshold even when the stimulus does not exceed subjective threshold
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Erdelyi 1974 - perception without conscious awareness

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Perception involves multiple processing stages/mechanisms with consciousness possibly representing the final stage of processing

*Hence a stimulus can receive sufficient perceptual processing to influence at least some aspects of behaviour without conscious perceptual experience

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what is the challenge for researchers in terms of perception

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need to develop more detailed theoretical accounts of unconsious/conscious perception

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implicit memory

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revealed by changes in performance on specially designed tests

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Tulving, Schacter & Stark 1982 - implicit memory - procedure

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gave lists of multi-syllabled rare words (e.g. ‘toboggan’) to participants.

*1hr or 1 week later completed a Fragment Completion Task: fill in blanks e.g. O_O_GA.

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Tulving, Schacter & Stark 1982 - implicit memory - results

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Participants unaware 50% solutions in list they were given earlier

*Repetition-priming effect - more correct solutions for items in earlier list

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evidence for implicit memory being unrelated to explicit memory

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  • Recognition worse after 1 week than 1 hour,

* Fragment completion unaffected by time

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implicit memory in amnesic patients

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  • often show impaired declarative memory (semantic and episodic) but intact procedural memory
  • ability to learn new skills without remembering learning them
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reading mirror-reversed script - implicit memory in amnesics - Cohen & Squire - general improvements

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practice: increased speed

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reading mirror-reversed script - implicit memory in amnesics - Cohen & Squire - - specific improvements

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re-reading same text

*BUT no explicit memory for previous trials

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neuropsychological patients

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showed deficits in episodic and semantic memory BUT motor skills acquires at normal rate

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neuropsychological patients and mirror tracing

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improvement with practice (procedural memory)

*no conscious awareness of having performed the task in the past

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amnesics

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*reasonably good learning of sensorimotor and perceptual skills

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amnesics and skill learning (procedural memory)

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intact

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Graf, Squire & Mandler 1984 - implicit memory in amnesics - part 1

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rate how much liked words on a list

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Graf, Squire & Mandler 1984 - implicit memory in amnesics - part 2

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Memory test: 3 tests of explicit memory (free-recall, recognition memory & cued-recall) and 1 test of implicit memory (fragment completion) – e.g. STR_ _ (e.g. STRAP, STRIP)

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Graf, Squire & Mandler 1984 - implicit memory in amnesics - examined

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priming effects = extent word completions taken from lists in part one

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Graf, Squire & Mandler 1984 - implicit memory in amnesics - results

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amnesics worse on explicit but not implicit memory tasks

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neuropsychology evidence

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study of brain damaged patients with a partial lack of conscious awareness

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Farah 01 - neuropsychological evidencd

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‘what is different or missing in a patient who perceives without awareness, compared to a normal person who perceives with awareness’

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prosopagnosia

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condition in which familiar faces cannot be recognised consciously but common objects can however often evidence of subconscious recognition of faces

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Young, Hellawell and de Haan (1988) - Prosopagnosics

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decide as quickly as possible whether names familiar or not

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Young, Hellawell and de Haan (1988) - Prosopagnosics - related priming faces

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Performed more rapidly when presented with related priming face immediately before target name, even though they couldn’t recognise the face overtly

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Young, Hellawell and de Haan (1988) - Prosopagnosics - covert recognition

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larger skin conductance response (reflects physiological arousal) to familiar faces than unfamiliar ones even when overt recognition is at chance.

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spatial neglect

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Typically found after brain damage in the right parietal lobe, often as the result of a stroke (NB/ Information from left visual field goes to right hemisphere, whereas information from right visual field goes to left hemisphere).

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neglect patients with damage to right hemisphere

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do not notice (or fail to respond to) objects presented to the left (contralateral) side.

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blindsight

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  • Damage to V1 (primary visual cortex) results in loss of conscious perception in parts of the visual field
  • However can make some accurate judgments/discriminations about stimuli presented to ‘blind’ area
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blindsight - Weiskrantz (1986)

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Patient DB, blind in lower left quadrant of visual field. He could detect stimulus presented to this blind area/ its location BUT had no conscious experience (couldn’t say what it was!)

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blindsight - Weiskrantz (1986) - results on guessing stimuli

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If he was made to guess what the stimulus was he was generally correct! When shown he was correct (item in right visual field) - expressed surprise & insisted he thought he was just ‘guessing’.

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blindsight - Weiskrantz (1986) - pathways from eye to brain

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There are at least 10 pathways from eye to the brain, some of which can be used by blindsight patients.

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