PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Attentional Blink, Inattentional Blindness, University Of Manchester

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Part 2: looking but not seeing overlapping stimuli: you can"t fully pay attention to what"s happening behind you and what"s going on in. Moving away from linguistic stimuli (remember just the colour of the other text and about the text font etc. : a lot like the dichotic listening results. What if we had eyes in the back of our head? front of you. In another test, the unattended images had gaps, but when asked to choose which image was the unattended one, most people chose the one with no gaps. Tipper: negative priming: found that in negative priming, the primed word slowed down the responses in the second trial. Ignore the dotted images but pay attention to the solid line shapes: the object that is being ignored in the first trial is the object that is attended to in the second trial.