NRSC 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Change Blindness, Parahippocampal Gyrus, Parietal Lobe
21 Mar 2018
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Attention: process of focusing on specific objects while ignoring others. Brings object into view, enhances processing and therefore perception of the object. Fixation: each time you briefly pause on a face. Provides us with the opportunity to focus on a particular person or object so that we can recognize him or her (or it) Saccadic eye movement: rapid jerky movement from one fixation to the next. Allow us to shift our attention and focus to other people and objects in a scene. Overt attention: attention that involves looking directly at the attended object. Monitor the actions of that interesting person in class without staring. Visual salience: scene regions that are markedly different from their surroundings, whether in color, contrast, movement, or orientation. Attention capture: properties of a stimulus grab attention, seemingly against a. Saliency map: reveals which regions are visually different from the rest of the scene. Scene schema: observer"s knowledge about what is contained in typical scenes.
