Lecture 10/3/24 Flashcards
Selective Attention
- conscious frontal lobe activation ( highly mediated) and it is in charge of executive control
- Frontal lobe allocates cerebral blood flow to a part of the cortex
- impaired cerebral blood flow to the frontal lobe
RCBF
Cerebral blood flow evolves. Memory, learning, education. ADHD patients have problem with this.
Cocktail Party Attention Effect
Using selective attention to understand what one person is saying, which is very difficult.
Different processing happens to information that is what?
Unattended or attended information.
Inattentional Blindness
When selecting attention, you will be blind to other things. It is the oppostie of selective attention.
Feature Search
One feature is changing.
Conjunctive Search
Tracking multiple features changing
Attention
We can fail to see things our eyes are looking directly at if our attention is elsewhere.
Spotlight Model
Spotlight is illuminated. Characterizes how we pay attention to things and how we don’t.
Zoom Lens component
We can zoom in and out on the spotlight model. The spotlight can change size when it needs to. Widen or narrow focus.
Errors are caused by–
The more you narrow the spotlight the more you ignore everything else.
Type 1 errors are known as
a false alarm
The smaller the spotlight the more stuff will fall into
inattentional blindness.
Divided attention is also known as?
Multi-tasking.
Tracking Speed
SPeed of attended objects and how fast your eyes must move to keep up
