Visual Attention

Question 1

Overt attention

Answer 1

Attention that involves looking directly at an object

Question 2

Covert attention

Answer 2

Attention for things one is not looking at

Question 3

What directs our attention?

Answer 3

1) stimulus salience
2) top-down factors/knowledge
3) task demands

Question 4

What happens when we attend?

Answer 4

Enhances

1) response to objects
2) perception of objects
3) physiological responding

Question 5

What happens when we don’t attend?

Answer 5

• inattentional blindness

- change blindness

Question 6

Perceptual load theory

Answer 6

• perceptual capacity

- perceptual load

Question 7

Binding problem

Answer 7

How do all features of one object get bound together in the brain?

Question 8

Feature integration theory

Answer 8

Object ➡️ preattentive stage ➡️ focused attention stage ➡️ perception

Question 9

Proof for binding

Answer 9

Illusory conjunction experiment

Question 10

Attention in ASD

Answer 10

• movie experiment ➡️ attention capture is different

- perceptual load theory experiment ➡️ ASD individuals process irrelevant stimuli at a constant rate