Unit 3 - 5: Attention

Question 1

Attention

Answer 1

Alerting focus to something

Question 2

Vigilance

Answer 2

Global level of alertness of the individual

Question 3

Overt attention

Answer 3

Direct our gaze to object we are thinking of

Question 4

Covert attention

Answer 4

Paying attention to one place but focusing on another

Question 5

Cocktail party affect

Answer 5

Ability to focus our attention on one stimulus among many

Question 6

Inattentional blindness

Answer 6

Lack of perception of stimuli not being attended to

Question 7

Voluntary attention

Answer 7

Top down: decide to attend to depending on our interests and goals

Question 8

Spatial Cuing

Answer 8

Reveal voluntary attention improves processing/ reaction time

Question 9

Processing pathway determines

Answer 9

Reaction time: complex stimuli take more time because it has more places to go to

Question 10

Reflexive attention

Answer 10

Involuntary: bottom up (peripheral spatial cuing to test); improves processing time in info is given right away, worsens processing time of delay is too long

Question 11

Complexity

Answer 11

Adds to reaction time

Question 12

Feature search

Answer 12

Searching for one particular characteristic

Question 13

Conjunction search

Answer 13

Searching for something with many specifics features; model real world; slower reaction time

Question 14

Electrophysiology and attention

Answer 14

Used for high temporal resolution; event related potential (ERP)

Question 15

ERP components (2)

Answer 15

1. N1 peak - hallmark of attended stimulus
2. Show plasticity

Question 16

Sustained attention

Answer 16

Person keeping focus on a stimulus for long periods of time

Question 17

Brain areas for attention; subcortical areas (3)

Answer 17

1. Superior colliculus (overt attention)
2. Pulnivar (makes widespread connections with visual processing areas, filters distractions
3. Reticular activating system (alertness, habituation

Question 18

Brain areas for attention; cortical areas

Answer 18

1. Parietal lobe
2. Intraparietal sulcus (IPS)
3. Frontal eye field
4. Tempoparietal junction (TJP)

Question 19

Hemispatial neglect

Answer 19

Damage to TJP and people ignore left side of the world

Question 20

Balint’s syndrome

Answer 20

Bilateral lesions of parietal lobe areas responsible for attention
Difficulty directing gaze, unable to reach for objects using visual info, restricted attention (one object at a time - simultagnosia)