PSYC2071 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Cocktail Party, Feature Extraction, Units Of Paper Quantity
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William james- taking into possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out trains of thought. Focused attention (or selective attention)- attending to one thing and ignoring other th. Divided attention (multitasking)- tracking multiple things and responding as necessary. External attention- the target of attention is something in the perceptual environmen. Internal attention- the target of attention is something that you"re thinking about, an. Active attention (endogenous)- exercising top-down control over our own attention in. Passive attention (exogenous)- bottom up control over attention, where something in. Lots of conversation and trying to attend to one person. There are lots of sources each source produces a signal the signals are jumb. An attentional filter : separates the sources and selects the target for processing. Very little is processed from the other source. Pre-attentive low-level analysis picks up some of the basic properties of the differen.
