Week 3-Attention

Question 1

What is attention?

Answer 1

William James-Focussing concentration of consciousness

The world exists; passive via the sensory system, perceive, capture, remember

Question 2

Classic Attention/Tasks

Answer 2

Stroop Effect-MacLeod &McDonald- Colour & word, incongruent condition, neuropsychological assessments of selective attention.

Cocktail Party Effect- Simultaneous conversations

Attention Models- Cherry dichotic listening task
Broadbent’s filter model. Triesman’s attenuator model. Recording neurons, reaction times

Question 3

Eye movement and eye physiology

Answer 3

Covert attention

Question 4

What happens to our brain when we pay attention?

Answer 4

Fixate–>Valid cue–>Stimulus
V1-Cortical Visual Processing
Top-down and Bottom-up processing
Saccadic eye movement as attention

Question 5

Salience vs Task Model

Answer 5

Salience- Bottom up-image properties
Task Model- Visual search
~Parallel search-
~Serial search