CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ator, Blindsight, Treis-Karden
2 Mar 2017
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Modularity: unconscious processing relies on multiple modules. Global workspace : a distributed neural system with long-range" neurons that serve to interconnect and coordinate modular subsystems. Attention enables access to consciousness: top-down attentional amplification is the mechanism by which modular processes can be temporarily made available to the global workspace, and therefore to consciousness. Our ability to focus on task-relevant information while ignoring other irrelevant information. Talking to a friend in a restaurant and ignoring the noises of the environment. Subject"s task is to repeat message in attended ear. The hope is to see what the unattended ear is picking up. Sensory input sensory buffer selective filter higher-level. With the dichotic listening, it is suggested that the info in the unattended ear never makes it to the higher-level processing therefore it is not processed. In some cases you can have info break into your attention suggesting the filter is too early in this model.
