Week 8 Flashcards
What’s the term given to the phenomenon where you forgot what you don’t attend to?
Inattentional amnesia
What is negative priming, and what was the experiment that showed it in relation to attention on objects?
Tipper’s 1985 study into the trumpet and the kite/anchor graphics
It was trying to understand ‘what happened’ to the unattended item
He showed that people were slower to recognise the unattended item in subsequent trials… implying that it WAS perceived in the original trial
What was the clever experiment that Egly, Driver and Rafal 1994 used to provide more evidence about the object based idea of attention… using a variation of Posner’s visual cuing paradigm…?
The one here they divided the space up into objects - rectangles - and then cued the actual rectangles, rather than the direction…
With the clever experiment from Egly, Driver and Rafal 1994 that used the rectangles to show the role of objects in attention, what happens if you occlude oar of the box - by sticking another rectangle across both of them…?
Nothing - despite the occlusion, the attentional affect still operated as in the previous experiment
What did the neuroimaging evidence show about the faces and houses in the context of object based attention?
Essentially, that the Fusiform (face) bit got more activated when participant was told to focus on the face…
and the parahippocampal (house) bit got more activated when the participant was told to focus on the house
Thinking about pathways in the brain associated with attention and vision, what is associated with the VENTRAL pathway that goes into the TEMPORAL lobe?
Form, colour
This is the ‘what’ pathway
Thinking about pathways in the brain associated with attention and vision, what is associated with the DORSAL pathway that goes into the Parietal lobe?
Direction of motion, spatial location
This is the ‘where’ pathway
Thinking about pathways in the brain associated with attention and vision, what is associated with the DORSAL pathway that goes into the Parietal lobe?
Direction of motion, spatial location
This is the ‘where’ pathway
When you put a ‘neglect’ patient though Posner’s cuing experiment, what is striking about the response times for stimulus presented in the DAMAGED field of vision
It’s much slower when the cue was ‘invalid’, but actually not that much slower if the cue was valid
Thinking about the two systems of attention - voluntary and automatic - what does Posner’s cuing experiments with ‘neglect’ patients tell us?
That these patients have NO impairment of their VOLUNTARY attention
What’s the amazing about the comb and apple experiment
The neglect problem only happens when there are two things to look at
Wtf is Balint’s Syndrome?
Like, you know, Simultanagnosia
Does inhibition of return have an object based component?
Yes!
The circles being moved experiment (Tipper 1991)
WHat’s the crazy thing about the Behrmann and Tipper (1994) experument
In ‘neglect’ patients, the neglect tracks the object
