PSYC 410 Lecture 8: Week 8

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 410
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

Document Summary

Highly selective, determines our experience of the world. One way of understanding is in terms of states of arousal, but you (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) study each state separately (cid:1) awareness, memory, social communication (cid:1) Involved in sensory processing, action/motor control, gates. Flanker task: measures interference, how well can attention filter (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) out irrelevant info. Stroop task: congruent vs. incongruent, automatic processes (reading) vs. more controlled processes (naming color) Cuing task: different cues to attract position of attention on screen, measure responses (accuracy, response time) index where attention is being allocated. Visual search: role of attention in perception, parallel search vs. serial search. Ant: attention network test, similar to cuing task but has 3 different conditions (attention, conflict resolution, alertness) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Voluntary attention: goal-driven, slow to engage but longer lasting. Involuntary/automatic attention: stimulus-driven, quick to engage (cid:1) but short lived. Ventrolateral frontoparietal network lateralized to rh.