CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Change Blindness, Inattentional Blindness, Hemispatial Neglect
2 Mar 2017
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Consciousness research relies on verbal reports ask them what they saw. Anytime you consciously perceive a face, that"s the part of your brain that is responsible for that kind of visual processing. Visual extinction and the case of gk: he reports that he can"t see the one on the left side. Two possibilities: the ffa is not the neural basis of face perception, gk has face experience that he cannot report on. It might appear to us that we are storing all this rich information about the world because when we go to access it we can. The fridge light is always on because when we open it, it is on but in fact it"s not always on, it"s just there when we look for it. Similarly, in the case of our conscious experiences, you don"t actually have rich presentation of the world, we just think that we do because when we go looking for it, we extract it.
