PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Creativity, Brainstem, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America
19 Apr 2016
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Failure to attend to events what we might be expected to notice. No, it is not inattentional amnesia", because perceptual processing can occur outside of awareness (without attention) Evidence: let"s go back to our visual perception lectures. Backward masking: we are aware of what we are not attending to. Presenting masked target words (unaware) that were congruent with the color patch in quicker reaction times (a priming effect) to name the patch than when the target word was incongruent with the color patch. The impression of having experiences a situation but it is novel. 2 out of every 3 people report at least one d j vu experience. More common in people with higher education, and who are more travelled; decreases with age. Can be associated with some brain diseases: epilepsy. There are a variety of of theories for d j vu. Inattentional blindness as an explanation: neurological explanation, memory explanation, the result of implicit priming associated with inattentional blindness.
