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what is the experiment for Attentional blink

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Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) presentation
¤ Continuous & rapid presentation of stimuli in the same location on a screen
¤ Stimuli includes targets and distractors

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what is Attentional blink

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If two targets are presented within a short time interval (500 ms), there is a reduced ability to identify the second target

Attention takes up resources that need to be replenished ¤ This means attention is limited by processing time

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Frontal lobe regions help do what

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¤ focus and hold information in our minds

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is attention processing divided int he brain

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yes

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what are the two divisions of attentional processing

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¤ Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC

¤ Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)

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what is ¤ Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) good for

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¤ Focusing attention

¤ Response selection

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what is Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)

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Selecting task relevant information

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what is Inattentional blindness a consequence of

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selective attention

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what is Inattentional blindness

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Failure to attend to new events in our environment that we ‘should’ see
¤ “Looking without seeing”

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is Inattentional blindness the same as change blindeness

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Similar but not exactly change blindness

¤ Change in a stimulus that was there before versus missing a new stimuli

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what are the Four characteristics of inattentional blindness

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¤ People fail to notice an event/object ¤ The object/event is fully-visible
¤ It can been seen
¤ The inability to notice the object/event is because of attention and not because of visual features
of the input
¤ The object/event is unexpected
¤ The effect is not due to being distracted or not engaging attention

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explain An inattentional blindness task

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¤ Two main features of this task
¤ Participants aren’t expecting a target but are looking
in the general area
¤ Participants are using attention resources for some task

Over a series of experimental trials:
¤ A cross with vertical and horizontal ‘arms’ of different lengths are presented very quickly that is followed by a mask
¤ Respond with which arm of the cross was longer (vertical or horizontal)
¤ Critical Trial: A small black square in introduced
¤ Later, participants are asked if they saw this black square

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do people notice the square in the attentional blindness task

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People don’t notice the small square

¤ An inability to perceive unexpected information

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what is Déjà vu

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The impression of having experienced a situation even thought it is a new situation
¤ 2 out of every 3 people report at least one déjà vu experience

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who s Déjà vu more common in

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¤ More common in:
¤ People with higher education ¤ People who are more travelled ¤ With age

¤ Can be associated with some brain diseases
¤ Epilepsy

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what is the The inattentional blindness explanation of deja vu

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¤ The result of implicit priming + inattentional blindness
¤ A new location is ‘perceived’ under distraction (inattentional
blindness)
¤ The next time that location is encountered, it is consciously registered as new, but is familiar due to implicit priming
¤ First, you see it, aren’t aware of it but still ‘register it’
¤ Next, you see it again, now you are aware of it and it feels oddly familiar

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what parts of the brain are activated with deja vu

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¤ Induced déjà vu in the lab (modified a false memory task) and monitored brain activity
¤ Reports of déjà vu was NOT associated with activity in memory areas but with brain regions involved in resolving conflict
¤ Déjà vu is not a false memory by activating conflict resolution processes between information learned during a period of inattention and a period of conscious attention

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what is Attentional capture

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¤ This can be thought of as the opposite of inattentional blindness
¤ A new stimuli is so powerful that it is noticed, even when attention is focused elsewhere

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is Attentional capture bottom up or top dowm

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¤ These are bottom-up cues from the environment
¤ Automatic, reflexive
¤ Physical properties of some stimuli grab our attention
¤ The sound of a car crashing; sirens; seeing a mouse scurry in the corner of a room

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what is ‘Meaningful’ attentional capture

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¤ Attentional capture directs us to information important for survival
¤ This means it is determined by the importance of stimuli
¤ There are specific types of stimuli that are more important than others. ¤ These stimuli have functionally specialized processes
¤ Typically, they are biologically and/or socially important (help us survive)

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explain the Attentional capture measured with a go no-go task and how it proves that Faces are a type of stimuli that automatically captures our attention

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¤ A ‘signal’ (circle) is superimposed on different types of visual stimuli (faces, objects, nothing)
¤ Go Trial: When the signal is green, indicate which side the vertical line is on
¤ No-go Trial: When the signal is red, press a task neutral button

Faces slowed down the ability of participants to apply attentional processes to other tasks (react on the go/no-go task) because they capture attention

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how to Measuring visual attention (via tasks and theories)

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¤Posner spatial cuing task          
     ¤Spotlight theory of attention
¤Visual search tasks
     ¤Feature integration theory of attention
¤Eye-tracking – overt visual attention 
     ¤An embodied cognition approach
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what is the Spotlight theory of attention

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¤ Location based view of attention
¤ Posner’s (1980) attentional spotlight theory
¤ Focus on a central view and ignore what is located ‘outside’ of the spotlight
¤ When moving our spotlight
¤ Attention will be disengaged from where it is currently focused
¤ It is physically shifted to another location and focus is centered there

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explain Posner cuing task

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  1. Fixation display: Fixate on the center a screen
  2. Cue Display: A ‘space’ cue directs attention to an area (left or right)
  3. Target Display: A target is presented and reaction time to detect it is measured

(valid trial—- Target appears in the SAME location as the cue
invalid trial– Target appears in a DIFFERENT location as the cue)

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what is the result of Posner cuing task

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Attention effect:
Reaction times to valid trials area FASTER than to invalid trials
Target appears in a DIFFERENT location as the cue

Duration between the cue and target is critical! This is the effects of varying the SOA – stimuli onset asynchrony
• Short time interval (SOA) < 200 ms
• Long time interval (SOA) ~ 300 ms

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what is Inhibition of return (IOR) and how was it found

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found from Posner cuing task

¤ Attention is inhibited in returning to a recently attended location after
a longer duration between cue and target

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what is the point of inhibition of return (IOR)

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¤ Novelty seeking: Helps us search our environment efficiently

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is estrogen related to IOR

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Estrogen is related to IOR (Inhibition of Return) effect

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how is estrogen related to IOR

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¤ Participants performed a cued target-detection task that measured inhibition of return (IOR) at
different stages of menstrual cycle (different estrogen levels)
¤ Greater IOR effects were related to higher estrogen levels
¤ A bias to take in new information

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what is Feature integration theory of attention

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Focuses on how we analyze visual scenes ¤ Object based attention
¤ Objects are collected of features and we pay attention to this feature differently for phases of attention

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what are the different phases of attention in the Feature integration theory of attention

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Pre-attention

Focused attention

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what is Pre-attention

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Different visual features are coded in parallel in separate feature maps automatically

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what is Focused attention:

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Features are integrated together to guide a search, which is done in a serial order

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what are the two Visual search tasks

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Feature Search

Conjunction Search

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what is Feature Search

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¤ Search for an object that is different from the distractors based on one feature

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is Feature Search top down or bottom up

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¤ Bottom up ; Exogenous; Reflexive

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what attention phase is Feature Search

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¤ Pre-attention phase

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what is Conjunction Search

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Search for an object that is different from the distractors on a many features

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is Conjunction Search top down or bottom up

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Top down ; Endogenous ; Voluntary

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what attention phase is Conjunction Search

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Focused attention phase

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Cognition – including attention is limited by what

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the constraints of our physical body

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what are the 2 Eye-tracking tools to measure visual attention

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Our eyes determine what visual information is attended

  1. Overt visual attention
  2. Covert visual
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what is Overt visual attention:

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Attending to something with your eye movements

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what is ¤ Covert visual attention:

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Attending to something without eye movements

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further explain Overt visual attention and what people fixate their eyes on typically

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¤People fixate mainly on eyes and mouth when viewing faces

¤People fixate on faces in a scene first, followed by the form of one figure in the scene

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are there Cultural differences in visual attentional processing

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¤ Measured eye movements measured as two groups (Western, East Asian) attended to complex images with a central object and background
¤ Suggests that cultural differences can affects attentional processing

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what are the Other varieties of attention

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Sustained attention

Divided attention

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what is Sustained attention

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¤The ability to focus cognitive activity on one task ¤Vigilance or concentration
¤Baggage scanners

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what is ¤Divided attention

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¤The ability to ‘attend’ to more than one thing at a time ¤Restaurant servers

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A common task to measures sustained attention is what

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the sustained attentional response task (SART)

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what is the sustained attentional response task (SART)

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A series of numbers is presented with th e task of responding to EVERY number except a given target (e.g., 4)

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what is Vigilance decrement

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a decrease in performance as a function of time

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explain the experiment of Vigilance decrement

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¤ Participants: 60 undergraduates
¤ Task Watch one-hour videos of lectures
¤ At various points, a screen would appear asking if they were mind wandering (not paying attention)
¤ Tested on lecture material

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what are the 2 views that came from the Vigilance decrement experiment

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¤ Overload:

¤ Underload:

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what is the overload view

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high attentional demands over time

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what is the underload view

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boredom–> mind-wandering –> divided attention

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explain Divided Attention: Task switching

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¤ Changing from working on one task to working on an another task ¤ Involves switching between specific mental sets

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is Divided Attention: Task switching top down or bottom up

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Top-down method of organizing information based on the goals of a task

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what is the Task switching paradigm (explain with experiment)

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¤ Over a series of trials, stimuli (e.g., numbers or digit) is presented and people switch the task they must do on the stimuli
¤ Changing the task associated with the stimuli comes with a switch cost
¤ A performance decline immediately following a switch between tasks
¤ This is because ‘cognitive system’ has to be ‘re-set’ to engage the correct behavior

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explain Divided Attention: Mind wandering

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¤ Can act like a ‘dual task’ situation
¤ A shift in mental resources away from a primary task and toward internal thoughts ¤ We are not often aware of mind wandering
¤ Action slips

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what are the Benefits of mind wandering

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Future thinking: As we mind wander, we can simulate our plans and possible outcomes
¤ Creative thinking: generate new solutions to old problems
¤ Think of as many uses for a brick
¤ After mind wandering, people generate more creative responses
¤ Relief from boredom: Mind-wandering may “speed up” how we perceive time during boring activities

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summarize Inattentional Blindness

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¤ Looking without seeing

¤ Can be thought of as a consequence of selective attention

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summarize ¤ Attentional Capture

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¤ Bottom up information that necessarily grabs our focus

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summarize ¤ Spotlight versus search approaches to studying visual attention

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¤ Trying to figure out how we move our attention in the world

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summarize ¤ Sustained Attention

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¤ Attention may wane over time

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summarize ¤ Task Switching

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¤ The attentional cost of multitasking

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summarize ¤ Mind wandering

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¤ Maybe it has a bad reputation

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