PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inattentional Blindness, Stroop Effect, Retina
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Dominating the filter theory literature is an important distinction between early and late selection. Another distinction identified in the early information-processing theories is the one between automatic and controlled processes. Automatic processes can un-fold without our having to pay attention to them. By contrast, activities using controlled processes require that we pay attention to the activities in order to execute them properly. The central bottleneck theory suggests that attention requires a central. The central bottleneck theory suggests that attention requires a central processor to handle the relevant information, and that this processor is unable to handle the information for more than one task at a time. In turns out that even mind wandering requires the central processor. Overt shifts of attention involve movement of the eyes to fixate attended regions of the visual field so that they can be processed by the high-resolution section of the retina in the back of the eye (the fovea).
