Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Interphase, Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cocktail Party

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Gillen

Document Summary

Points out that we can only pay attention to so many things. If we try and pay attention to too many things than something is going to suffer. Is defined as: the focalization and limitation of information processing of resources by schmidt and wrisberg. Dynamic scene changes something changes really quickly so we reorient our activity draw on a structure called the superior colliculus that has direct connections and wiring with the muscles of our eye. We are really good at detecting dynamic scene changes. Information processing: limited capacity processing channel, limitations in the number of activities that can pass through the channel at the same time, serial vs. parallel processing. Allows only one processing activity at a time. If we have a bottleneck in processing what happens: the early theory states that the bottleneck will occur prior, the late theory states that the bottleneck occurs as the to or at stimulus identification stimulus enters response selection.