PSYCO375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Episodic Memory, Anterograde Amnesia, Circadian Rhythm
2 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Attention to cards, while the background and color change. Similar to gorilla moving around in scene while you are counting basketballs. Like a spotlight of attention so we are unaware of other things on the stage: boosts processing for important items. Prioritize one stream of afferent sensory info over others. Neurological disorder brain damage on right temporal parietal region. They ignore everything on the left side of their visual field or body. 2 patients with hemispatial neglect at the hospital both from milan, they knew the square very well. Imagine that they are on cathedral steps looking onto plaza and name all the buildings and monuments as you look around: only remember things to their right. If you imagine you are on the other side of the square on the plaza steps facing the cathedral, they recall all the items on the right side only.
