PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anne Treisman, Attentional Blink, Parahippocampal Gyrus

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

Visual analog of the dichotic listening task (i. e. paragraph of alternating blue and red words, read only one color: memory test after typically recall physical properties, not much about meaning, about the ignored message. Subjects noticed salient words in the unattended text i. e. name, important things, etc. To control/reduce eye movement, you can overlap words . Not a lot of study on selective reading moved away from linguistic stimuli. Multiple visual input sensory buffer meaning analysis of visual stimuli lt memory attended visual stimuli. Being able to see front and back at the same time : problem: visual overload can focus on what"s on front or behind, but not both at the same time. Experimenters also got participants to attend to both videos not very good at it. When you are watching something, and you miss change in details that you are looking at is not a visual problem, it is an attentional overload problem: called inattentional blindness.