PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Visual Cortex, Parallel Computing, Absolute Threshold

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

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Psych 1000 - lecture 10 - sensation, perception and consciousness (part 2: perception: the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. It attends to some parts of these objects to the exclusion of others. What is attention: everyone knows what attention is. What really is attention: no one knows what attention is, and . there may even not be an it" there to be know about (although of course there might be) , harold pashler (1998) Selective directing attention: selective attention: what we focus on is what we consciously perceive, attention shapes how we construct the world around us, it feels like a unified experience, but its not, it is a limited ability. Selective inattention: selective inattention refers to our failure to notice part of our environment when our attention is directed elsewhere.