PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prefrontal Cortex, Angular Gyrus, Mind-Wandering
19 Apr 2016
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On attention itself, it is needless to discourse at length; its nature and conditions are familiar to every thoughtful student munsell (1873) No one knows what attentions is, and there may even not be an it" there to be know about (although of course there might be) paschler (1999) There is no such thing as attention anderson (2011) Metaphors of attentions tend to be space-based: spotlight (posner, zoomlens (eriksen, gradient (laberge) Controlled: requires attention, e. g. reading a textbook. Automatic: occurs without attention, e. g. hearing a loud crash and turning towards the direction of the noise. Status of dichotomy: still used often, although mounting evidence suggests otherwise. Only a small portion of all sensory outputs are attended to. Stimuli registration perceptual analysis semantic analysis response early filter late filter. Early selection (cherry, broadbent: dichotic listening, shadowing. Structural limits: similar task result in greater interference. Divided attention: ability to attend to more than one thing at a time.
