Lecture 4B attention

Question 1

what do we need attention for?

Answer 1

• selecting info we need

- blocking out useless information

Question 2

divided attention

Answer 2

• multiple tasks

- helped by automatization

Question 3

early selection

Answer 3

= Broadbent’s filter theory

- selection between primary sensation and meaning

Question 4

Cocktail party effect

Answer 4

• you hear your name even in the unattended track

Question 5

dear aunt jane effect

Answer 5

• you follow the meaning

- can switch between two audio tracks

Question 6

leaky filter model

Answer 6

= Treisman’s attention theory

• task dependent filter
• always leaky

Question 7

inattentional blindness

Answer 7

• you dont perceive something because you dont attent to it

Question 8

fronto-parietal network

Answer 8

• for all conscious processes

- involved in attention

Question 9

spatial shadowing

Answer 9

• unattendence to a prominent object

- due to focus on other object

Question 10

late filter theory

Answer 10

• Deutch and Deutch

Question 11

sequential

Answer 11

• tasks done by switich between them

Question 12

Stroop taks

Answer 12

• reading a colour name printed in a different colour
• or vice versa
• > only colour recognition is a problem, therefor reading is an automatic process

Question 13

constant mapping

Answer 13

• a target is never the distractor

- enables automatization

Question 14

varied mapping

Answer 14

• target can be used as a distractor

Question 15

unlearning

Answer 15

• former target becomes distractor

- way harder than learning

Question 16

feature-based attention

Answer 16

• attention to properties of objects

Question 17

lacation based-attention

Answer 17

• space attention

Question 18

internal attention

Answer 18

• attention to your own mind

Question 19

endogeneous

Answer 19

• goal-driven

- top-down

Question 20

exogeneous

Answer 20

• bottom-up

- stimulus-driven

Question 21

spatial cueing task

Answer 21

• press a button when light appears in one of two spots

- indicated by arrows, i.e. cues

Question 22

cues

Answer 22

• must be informative to have an effect

- invalid, valid or neutral

Question 23

covert attention

Answer 23

• without eye movements

- used in spatial cueing tasks

Question 24

overt attention

Answer 24

• with eye movements

Question 25

hemi neglect

Answer 25

• damage right parietal lobe
• ignore left side of objects
• also of their own body
• perceive something, but are not conscious about that

Question 26

detecting features

Answer 26

• stage 1

- no attention

Question 27

conjunction attention

Answer 27

• stage 2
• combining features
• attention needed

Question 28

illusory conjunctions

Answer 28

• falsly binding features together

- in memory