The attending brain

Question 1

The process by which certain information is selected for further processing and other information is discarded

Answer 1

Attention

Question 2

A failure to be aware of a visual stimulus because attention is directed away from it

Answer 2

Inattentional blindness

Question 3

A failure to notice the appearance/disappearance of objects between two alternating images

Answer 3

Change blindness

Question 4

Any aspect of a stimulus that, for whatever reason, stands out from the rest

Answer 4

Salient

Question 5

The movement of attention from one location to another

Answer 5

Orienting

Question 6

The movement of attention from one location to another without moving the eyes/body

Answer 6

Covert orienting

Question 7

The movement of attention
accompanied by move-
ment of the eyes or body

Answer 7

Overt orienting

Question 8

A slowing of reaction
time associated with
going back to a previously
attended location

Answer 8

Inhibition of return

Question 9

Attention that is externally
guided by a stimulus

Answer 9

Exogenous orienting

Question 10

Attention is guided by the
goals of the perceiver

Answer 10

Endogenous orienting

Question 11

A task of detecting the
presence or absence of a
specified target object in an
array of other distracting
objects

Answer 11

Visual search

Question 12

An inability to report a target stimulus if it appears soon after another target stimulus

Answer 12

Attentional blink

Question 13

Contains neurons that respond to salient stimuli in the environment and are used to plan eye movements

Answer 13

Lateral intraparietal area (LIP)

Question 14

A fast, ballistic movement of the eyes

Answer 14

Saccade

Question 15

A spatial layout that emphasizes the most behaviorally relevant stimuli in the environment

Answer 15

Salience map

Question 16

Adjusting one set of spatial coordinates to be aligned with a different coordinate system

Answer 16

Remapping

Question 17

Part of the frontal lobes responsible for voluntary movement of the eyes

Answer 17

Frontal eye field (FEF)

Question 18

A failure to attend to stimuli on the opposite side of space to a brain lesion

Answer 18

Hemispatial neglect

Question 19

In a non-lesioned brain there is over-attention to the left side of space

Answer 19

Pseudo-neglect

Question 20

The ‘raw’ feeling of a sensation, the content of awareness

Answer 20

Phenomenal consciousness

Question 21

The ability to report on the content of awareness

Answer 21

Access consciousness

Question 22

The ability to detect an object among distractor objects in situations in which the number of distractors presented is unimportant

Answer 22

Pop-out

Question 23

A situation in which visual features of two different objects are incorrectly perceived as being associated with a single object

Answer 23

Illusory conjunctions

Question 24

A theory of attention in which information is selected according to perceptual attributes

Answer 24

Early selection

Question 25

A theory of attention in which all incoming information is processed up to the level of meaning (semantics) before being selected for further processing

Answer 25

Late selection

Question 26

If an ignored object suddenly becomes the attended object, then participants are slower at processing it

Answer 26

Negative priming

Question 27

In the context of attention, unawareness of a stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli

Answer 27

Extinction

Question 28

A severe difficulty in spatial processing normally following bilateral lesions of the parietal lobe; symptoms include simultagnosia, optic ataxia and optic apraxia

Answer 28

Balint’s syndrome

Question 29

Inability to perceive more than one object at a time

Answer 29

Simultagnosia

Question 30

A task involving judging the central point of a line

Answer 30

Line bisection

Question 31

A variant of the visual search paradigm in which the patient must search for targets in an array, normally striking them through as they are found

Answer 31

Cancellation task

Question 32

A map of space coded relatively to the position of the body

Answer 32

Egocentric space

Question 33

A map of space coding the locations of objects and places relative to each other

Answer 33

Allocentric space