HLTH2000 Lecture 5: HLTH2000-Lecture 5
7 Nov 2018
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Cognitive processes in motor control - attention & memory. Concept: preparation for and performance of motor skills are influenced by our limited capacity to select and attend to information. Doing more than one thing at a time How do we simultaneously perform multiple activities. Attention is our consciousness, awareness and cognitive effort to. Remember: processing information = reducing uncertainty to select correct response. Conscious processing takes cognitive effort & time. Simultaneously perform multiple tasks (e. g. driving a car, scanning the road; listening to a cd, talking with a passenger, talking on mobile!) Why is attention limited: serial processing, filter theories. Difficulty doing multiple tasks simultaneously due to serial processing of multiple stimuli. Process only one piece of information at a time. (e. g. psychological. Creates the bottleneck - errors, slow rt (bottleneck theory) Filter @ stimulus detection & identification stage. Why is attention limited: parallel processing, resource capacity theories.
