Week 5 Flashcards
Selective attention to speech is closely tied to _____
Linguistic and semantic memory processes
What is inattentional blindness?
Failure to notice things that are explicitly attended to
What is change blindness/deafness?
The inability to detect a change in an unattended stimulus
What is saccadic suppression?
The dramatic deterioration in visual sensitivity when our eyes are in motion during saccades
When is saccadic suppression strongest and weakest?
- strongest at the beginning of the movement
- weakest once the eyes have landed at their position
Perceptual processing requires _____
Some degree of focused attention
____ may be more susceptible to inattentional blindness because ______
- Young adults
- They are so good at focusing attention on one thing, that they are able to completely remove attention from something else
Ulrich Neisser performed an experiment featuring _____
Overlapping videos of a hand-slapping game and people passing a ball
Who designed the experiment in which a person counts ball passes as another figure walks through the scene?
Ulrich Neisser
Who performed the gorilla experiment?
Daniel Simons
What is motorcycle blindness?
Drivers don’t see motorcyclists on the road who have the right of way, and turn left in front of the motorcycle
People don’t see motorcycles because _____
They aren’t looking for them
No drivers who drive in front of motorcycles _____
Ride motorcycles themselves
What happens during saccades?
Visual processing is suspended
How can change blindness be studied in the lab, and who invented the method?
- Flicker task
- Ron Rensink
