PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Attentional Blink, Connectionism, Visual Search
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As soon as you present a word and want it to recognize a letter, it processes the features, recognizes letters, moves to word level. W-o-r d, k, n but it will never come up with q, u, f. As soon as the words get activated, it sends down possible letters. Top down: when given w-o-r, based on knowledge we begin to fit letters into that word, d, k, n. Constantly moving between bottom up and top down. As more time passes we can realize that work is correct i m u n o m e d n a p o t r a l i m i. S and not word: weak, and wear are not activated past the first. The rsvp paradigm is o(cid:374)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) of stud(cid:455)i(cid:374)g people"s atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374)al li(cid:373)its: rapid serial visual presentation (raymond, shapiro, and arnell, 1992, basic task: the participants view streams of rapidly presented stimuli and must report two cued targets.